Is there NO answer to this?

...not for everyone, anyway!

I get it, though! I've been labeled and re-labeled as disabled since 1989. I, too, won my initial plea to SSec and have been on the "dole" since. This, alone, is difficult to swallow. I, in my brain, KNOW I cannot do as others; I understand that I am and will always be in chronic pain. However, somewhere, in my being, is this nagging p.i.t.a. who tells me that, somewhere, there IS hope.

Now, SocSec reviews my disability claim every now and then. I have never been told that I am better than I was when I first applied; I have never been certified as NOT disabled. And, it is, each and every time that I have to fill out the forms and receive their replies, keeping me ON disability, it's a very bitter pill to swallow. Again, intellectually, I understand that this is where I am; yet, in my heart, I can't get rid of the hope. Perhaps this is what is keeping me alive..

I don't know if I answered your question; perhaps all there is IS to commisserate. But, like I said, I DO get it!

best to you in your quest!