I ‘ve been on SSI SSDI since 2004. My medical review is due in a few years or less.

what are the chances that they’ll cut my benefits because I’m seeing a psychiatrist and taking medications everyday?

I worked part time for a while until i got suicidal thoughts

Bipolar affective disorder, also known as bipolar disorder or manic depression, is a mental illness in which the patient has mood swings or mood cycling. The mood cycles between depression, mania, and normal behaviors. Depression episodes are typically accompanied by extreme sadness and feelings of hopelessness or worthlessness, decreased energy, and sleeping too much. Manic episodes are typically accompanied by extreme happiness, inability to sleep, increased energy, racing thoughts, and distractibility. Mixed episodes, in which the patient shows symptoms of both mania and depression at the same time, can also occur.

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A typical day for a person begins with them waking up usually in the morning. They go about their day, doing routine activities such as going to work, meeting deadlines, attending meetings and dealing with all kinds of people.
In the person’s home, they must do chores and spend time with family. Other activities must be done too including: going to the grocery store or church. Above all else, they must deal with different scenarios that they can welcome or resent. This all adds up to making the individual sick.

This is the type of day a person suffering from Bipolar contends with. Having the disease should not be hard to talk about but it is even if the person is seeking treatment

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I have been getting it for 4-5 years now and they never did a CDR (continuing disability review).

Is there chance that they may cut off my benefits when they do a CDR?

I see a psychiatrist every 8 weeks, get depressed or suicidal thoughts when I work. I have been on disability for 5 1/2 years.

I am worried about the disability review because I don’t know how to show them proof that I get depressed or suicidal when I work even part time. I take ativan, invega, celexa, trazadone, ambien, lithium.

Depression is not a small societal problem. It affects a rather large segment of our population. The word depression is a broad topic, and actually there are a variety of different type of the condition known as depression. These different types of depression are defined by different types of symptoms that are present.

The most commonly type of depression treated today is known as major depression. Major depression is denoted by a lack of energy by the individual, unable to get a good night’s sleep, and just a general lethargic feeling or feeling blue for extended periods of time with no breaks in the mood and no apparent cause for the feelings.

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My husband and I would like to start trying for a baby in about a year. However, I am type 1 bipolar and I am on seroquel and lamictal. I know that I cannot take the lamictal and I might have to change mood stabilizers. That’s fine, I’m just so worried after reading all of these articles about it and I just wanted to hear that people have actually had pleasant pregnancies and births, even with bipolar.

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a mental illness caused by a number of factors including neurological, biological, emotional, and environmental factors. It is typically characterized as mood cycling from manic, or extra happy, moods to depressed, or extra sad, moods.

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