The Exhausting and Degrading Disability Process for Mental Health

Applying for disability for mental health reasons is such an exhausting and degrading process. You're gaslit constantly, making you doubt your own emotional experience. Earlier I was looking up what I'm even supposed to do to get by during the appeal process (which typically takes a year and a half AT LEAST) and one article's advice was basically 1. Work (y'know, the thing I would be doing if I wasn't disabled?!) 2. Pray that your state has assistance beyond just basics like SNAP 3. Get your friends and family to help.... All this song and dance to prove to the government that *maybe* my existence is economically justifiable. And the best part is, I don't even want to live in the first place...