Hello,

I was wondering if any of you have experience getting on disability in the United States, and if you've had any luck. I'm currently in no mental position to work, haven't been for a while, I'm diagnosed bipolar on paper but pretty sure it's BPD, my highs/lows happen in the span of hours/minutes and not days, just as intense though, and half the time every single day I'm terribly suicidal. No meds have worked for me, tried basically everything, unless some miracle cure comes out I doubt I can handle 40 hours a week. I need to bring in money somehow to pay rent, but I can't control my emotions enough to hold a job for more than a week, I'm extremely explosive, most people are a stick of TNT wheres I'm a Tsar Bomb, and I hate my life and the fact I can't succeed because of that, I'm a very smart guy analytically, I'm just not emotionally intelligent at all, and it sucks to have so much potential with no opportunity to apply it. I'd like to get on disability until I'm WELL controlled under medication, and a big peice of that puzzle is removing stressors such as having to find a job or be homeless, if my life had an element of normalcy to it I'd likely be much more successful in stabilizing. Idk what to do. Thinking about a lawyer. This all really affects my daily functions and literally puts me and others in danger, I shouldn't be driving on the road to/from work when I'm like that.