How much can I work while On SSI?

SSI? How does it work, PTSD sufferer, need quick assistance?

• Preface: I've been diagnosed with PTSD and had a bit of a traumatic childhood. Needless to say this kind've ****** me up and caused a lot of problems. I'm still a smart person, i'm a good person, maybe in some ways i'm more capable than people without PTSD, but the ways in which I am challenged feel very crippling and are vital to having a job and it's hard to show what you have if you can't take an X-Ray of it. I don't know anything about how getting disability payments work, but my family is near getting evicted, my father doesn't want to help or understand and lies to courts to pay less child support. I am an adult now missing a lot of my development because I totally isolated myself for a decade or more because my PTSD began in childhood. So I will just say my areas of functioning that are not to a level where I feel I could hold a job although I am in treatment and trying very hard. I know this because I cannot even handle being in school for too long before the panic attacks and depression come back. I do all this with difficulty as half of my life on this planet i've had PTSD and didn't know (always got diagnosed with depression and anxiety and got nowhere) and just beat myself up constantly and took verbal abuse from my family who took my ptsd symptoms as a) I get stressed, tense, anxious, and very easy. My stress response is poor even though I have practiced meditation and many other techniques, I tend to get panic attacks, eventually leading to stress breakdowns when put under way too much stress. Then I tend to isolate, become apathetic and suicidal because I feel I have no hope. Any enviroment with many strangers makes me very uneasy, I become depersonalized/derealized and start to retreat into my mind as I become so disoriented by the anxiety and physical tension. b) social functioning, I have no assertiveness whatsoever and my apathy and depression makes it hard for me to try, and I am very much more likely to just avoid a problem than ask for anything, even if I deserve it, because the fear of a panic attack or the countless bad experiences I've had have made me cautious and cynical. Even right now as I type this I feel like I should be ashamed for trying to get disability even though I know it is logically not wrong. I guess that's simply the product of being abandoned and denied a lot of basic necessities as a kid due to negligence and poverty. I am unable to start relationships, or friendships and I have trouble maintaining them unless they are simply online, I simply don't remember how I did it as a kid or never learned as an adult because I isolated to cope I never call friends or invite them over or contact them, and people tend to take this the wrong way and don't contact me or ignore me, I then think they don't like me and feel more alone and outsiderish and decide to isolate more. Being in a job environment I think would be even worse because I have very little trust of people and my defenses are very ramped up and I experience hypervigilance (what some call paranoia but is not). I've been screwed over and mistreated by school systems, and police so I feel like a work environment would just be another blame the victim institution, so it scares me. 3) I have no drivers license, I'm learning to drive but no license and no way in hell am I gonna have a car before I have a license. So I can't drive to work and have to depend on family. My meds make me dizzy and I don't know that I could drive that well anyway. 4) My family (other than my dad who doesnt live with us) has been poor for a long time and are even poorer now. My mother had a job but she got a work injury and is currently awaiting several surgeries and cannot work or go back to work, she is currently awaiting surgery and they cut off her workmans comp because it reached a 2 year mark. We are on the verge of getting evicted and this is putting tremendous stress on me and my mother. tldr; I'm in treatment for PTSD and I cannot work or can only work very simple jobs with little or no social contact. My mother is injured and awaiting surgery and her worksman comp has been cut off. She worked for a contractor so she does not have access to SSDI. I was in school but that is now over and the last of my financial aid went to the bills. Where do I go to get immediate help? What can we do? Who do I need to talk to?

• Answer:

  Here is a forum that will help you understand and get assistance my friend, also here some other links that will help you too:- https://www.ptsdforum.org/c/threads/impact-of-major-move-on-ptsd-sufferer.25057/ http://voices.yahoo.com/living-ptsd-individual-sufferers-5974352.html?cat=72 Take Care My friend