I am not on public assitance. I worked for a long time and contributed significantly into social security. I paid for these benefits.
How can you feel so “overconfident” about diagnosing the extent of my mental disorder if you are not “any sort of medical professional” and have never met me or spoken with me. One might call that grandiose which, as I am sure you know, is a symptom of bipolar disorder.
You have also drawn firm conclusions about the nature of my lawsuit while at the same time saying, “I have no idea what went on in the court room.” This belief that you are somehow clairvoyant would possibly indicate schizophrenia or, perhaps, a thought disorder.
There is also some genuine cognitive incongruity in your statement that my thinking is disorganized, your insistence that I am suffering deeply (although, again, you have never observed me), and your assessment that I am grandiose (overconfident due to bipolar). How is that congruent with your conclusion that I am “not that far gone” and should not be on disability? And what leads you to assume that I have not tried to help myself? As you know I have been in treatment a long time, have earned a masters degree in psychology, went to law school on a full merit scholarship, and did not apply for disability for 18 years after first being diagnosed. I understand that you are not “any sort of medical professional.” It would seem also that you may not be any sort of employment specialist. I’m assuming also that you are not “any sort of attorney.”
I did not say that you shouldn’t be on disability — just that you should be working towards getting off it, and focusing on what needs to be done to accomplish that.