I miss working...

I would give anything to have a full time job right now. I'm such a people person, I always do so well when I'm working! The idea of never working again because of my health concerns is really killing me. People are already calling me a lazy waste of space or a welfare case because of the decisions I've made for my family.

Moms on disability, did you feel guilty about starting it? Did you ever get over it and accept yourself as a disabled person? I'm too young to feel so old. =[

Quoting Chroma Hex [+1]:" I would give anything to have a full time job right now. I'm such a people person, I always do so well ... [snip!] ... guilty about starting it? Did you ever get over it and accept yourself as a disabled person? I'm too young to feel so old. =["

I know exactly how you feel. They won't give me disability, but I have Chronic Pancreatitis and can't work. It's tough, but we get through it. I felt guilty when we first got food stamps but now we make $21 over the limit so we can't even get those but at least we get insurance through the state which I am grateful for or we'd have more piles of medical bills. I don't think I will ever get over the fact that my body just doesn't function like other people's. I feel like I am 80 years old when I just turned 23. I don't know that I will ever accept it. It's a struggle between wanting to be normal and work or accepting the fact that if I do get a job there will be issues on days I can't come in or don't feel good. I've had to quit lots of jobs because of my health. It truly does suck, I am right there with ya.

Quoting Peyton'sMommy♥:" I know exactly how you feel. They won't give me disability, but I have Chronic Pancreatitis and can't ... [snip!] ... come in or don't feel good. I've had to quit lots of jobs because of my health. It truly does suck, I am right there with ya."

Have you tried working through a lawyer? I'm working on it for FMS and bipolar disorder...I have a lot of issues I didn't have even two years ago. =[ I found a really great lawyer, the kind that only charges if he wins your case!

I've been disabled since i was 14 (had to leave high school bcos of it). I put myself through community college and university and when i was finished i'd assumed i would've been 'healed'/back to normal. I was still sick and more disabled though. I had my DS and my health has improved, but only as much as i'm able to look after him. i'm still in a lot of pain and struggle daily mentally and physically. I love being a SAHM and want to homeschool, but i would also love to be able to work part time. I've always been very very upset by not being able to work, i used to go to interviews, get jobs and work as best i could before inevitably having to quit/get fired because i was so sick. i just couldn't accept it. i had the education and brain to work yet my stupid body wouldn't let me. I got over this quite a lot just before i got pregnant and having a natural birth gave me confidence and faith in my body again. I still struggle to take my son out for a couple of hours everyday, so i'm far from being well enough to work. It is very frustrating, but for now i think of being a SAHM as my full time job - my most important job in the world, and i hope in future i'll be well enough to have a career.

i'm also a single parent and on disability. Financially we get by, i'm thrifty and sell some things from home. It's Ok, but i hope things get better. I couldn't accept being in this position forever.