Posted by SLS on June 7, 2011, at 5:16:11
In reply to Self-stigma, leaving disability rolls...SLS?, posted by zonked on June 5, 2011, at 17:19:00
Hi Z.
I have been on Social Security Disability for 20 years. At first, I felt quite lowly. Then I felt very guilty for being on the public rolls. I swore I would return to work ASAP. Well, ASAP has meant "not yet". I guess that's better than "never". If my rate of recovery continues at its excruciatingly gradual pace, I don't envision returning to work until September at the earliest.
So, what about the guilt? The more I came to recognize that my illness was as seriously detrimental to my ability to function, the more I began to believe that I deserved the financial support of entitlements no less than someone with cancer or heart failure. If you have ever felt "well", try to remember how easy and painless things were to accomplish. I challenge you to make the comparison in your mind and still feel guilty for being truly disabled.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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