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   XPost: alt.society.mental-health, sci.med.psychobiology, bionet.neuroscience   
   XPost: alt.support.bipolar-disorder, sci.med   
   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   I’m in the process of applying for the Disability Tax Credit,   
   which will qualify me for the federal dental program and   
   which will also result in the province giving me $400 a   
   month and the federal government giving me $200 a month   
   as of July 2025, unless new governments are elected and   
   cancel those benefits. It may also result in an increase   
   in my GST/HST rebate.   
      
   But from looking at the forms I thought that I am not   
   sufficiently impaired, though I was years ago. However   
   my brother, a retired accountant, told me that I should   
   go ahead and apply anyway,   
      
   There is a long section on the form to be filled out by   
   my psychiatrist, including my diagnosis of bipolar   
   mood disorder type 1, which I first received in   
   September of 1991.   
      
   But on the form I had to appear a bit worse off than   
   I think I am and than I have been presenting myself   
   to my psychiatrist. At my initial interview with   
   my psychiatrist in early 2013 I did discuss my comparison   
   of myself with Taliesin and certain patterns in my   
   mood cycles, and gave him the title and URL to   
   my Salmon on the Thorns web page, but I hadn’t   
   discussed it since then.   
      
   So anyway today at my meeting with my psychiatrist   
   I did say that I benefit from living with family members   
   and have more problems when living alone, and   
   that my mental health has improved in recent years   
   but that stress could cause problems. I also mentioned   
   that I believe that I now have matchmaking ability and   
   the ability to determine the special abilities of others.   
   I also mentioned my comparison of myself to some past   
   major pagan and non-pagan religious figures, based on   
   analysis of patterns and significant events in my mood   
   cycles. I also mentioned my attempts to magically   
   instigate a global new age, and that it was effectively   
   a complicated prayer in which I have done much of   
   the groundwork in the last 28 years. But I said that,   
   unlike in 1996, I won’t believe anything for sure without   
   evidence. And I said that I didn’t think that an increase   
   in medication would change my magical/religious beliefs   
   and might result in negative physical side effects.   
      
   Based on that he may indicate on the form that I   
   have moderate impairment in mood and moderate   
   impairment in reality perception, require some   
   family support, have required brief hospitalization   
   in the past (five weeks in 1991, one week in 1992,   
   and three weeks in 1996), and have a diagnosis   
   of bipolar mood disorder type 1. Hopefully that   
   will be enough for me to qualify for the tax credit.   
      
   At the end of the meeting he said that I was sounding   
   good and said to come back in eight weeks, whereas   
   if he thought I was having problems he would have   
   made it a shorter interval.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill;   
   And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)