Depression Treatment Care

Hey,
Ok I’m asking a serious question here that has been concerning me for a while now..I have panic disorder and manic depression and my cousin and everyone else keeps telling me to have my doctor write out a note for me that I’ve been diagnosed which I have and take it to social security..oh so here it goes..can you really do that? If you can do that how much would I get cause some of these stories they’re telling me are way up there. Can anyone help? L8ER.
Dys!

My son is 12 days old and I am still a ball of emotions. I don’t know what to do about it. Everything launches me into tears. I feel lonely and anxious all the time. I feel like I am failing as a parent for not being able to keep it together. What do I do??

I have struggled with depression since about 1st grade, and I have never been able to hold down a job for more than about a year. I feel that I would be a good candidate for disability, but I don’t even know where to begin (not to mention feeling overwhelmed by it). Can someone please help?
Thank you for the people who have tried to ANSWER my question, rather than spout off their opinions of what I should do instead. Yes, depression is as disabilitating, if not more, than someone who needs a walker, etc. Some people’s legs don’t work, and deserve disability. My brain does not work right, it apparantly never has. It IS a physical problem. (Really, I am probably Bi-polar, if giving it another name makes it more “real.”) I have tried every type of therapy, and almost every medicine available. The REASON I am depressed is because I have a medical condition. Many people have “struggled with depression” and may have even been on anti-depressants and still have no clue what it is to have a true physical disorder of the brain. Please, if you know of what forms I need to fill out, what kind of doctors need to help with those forms, etc., I welcome your help. If you want to tell me to go take a walk, please save your “help.” I know more about how to fight it than you.

Especially if it was nightmarish right afer your first?

I’m 33 weeks, and I remember how bad it was after I had my son. Is it going to be worse this time around?