| I agree with the above. If you are not able to work, it won't hurt to apply for disability. And, yes, it's easier to have a lawyer's help. But lawyers want your money! If you research really well, find others with your condition who have succesfully applied for and been awarded benefits to help, you have a good chance of filing yourself. The reason it is such a pain is that the SSA wants information they do not ask for. Then, you get turned down for an incomplete claim. Then you must appeal. Then you wait, months, years...
One other thing, if you decide to apply, remember that you're writing a "doctor's report", a journalistic, descriptions of symptoms, all on a computer form that has character limits. Go to the limits if need be and send them additional information (that wouldn't fit) too. As you work on the application, self doubt and worry may set in. There you are, describing to complete strangers what's "wrong" with you, why you aren't able to work. That takes intestinal fortitude.
All the time you have worked, the Social Security Administration has been taking money out of your checks. They take money for this insurance, use it. It is yours. | 
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