How easy is it to get disability because of my deafness?

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CrazyGirl

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At work co-workers tend to ignore me and barely make a conversation with me. While I've been there over 10yrs, it has finally gotten to me how I'm treated there to the point of breaking down and crying. I work in retail full-time. I'm currently seeing a counselor and taking citalophram.
Seeing co-workers having their own group of other co-workers to gossip with, joke around, I can't help feeling left out and jealous. I wondering if all that could be spilling into my personal life.
I try to make conversation, I barely say anything to others at work. Always been that way n now I wished I wasn't. I wished that I was much more outgoing and social.
 
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A_Void_Ant

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Don't you hate feeling left out? I completely sympathize with you. Sorry, but I don't have an answer to the question you addressed in your topic's title, but I should like to mention: it is possible to feel better about your situation at work by thinking differently. At work, when I feel how you do, I dissect my thoughts: "They never talk to me. I always have to initiate," is something I often think about. But I tell myself: that is the "effect" so what is the "cause"? And then I answer: Because they are scared. They are scared of people who are different, because they have to work "harder" to get somewhere with them; and any social gain on their part is negligent. My point is, just realize that you don't have the problem. They do. And it's not everybody. Some people genuinely, empathetically go out of their way to include others. If your situation is so unfortunate that the latter type is not with you at work: my dearest sympathy to you. Just remember, you are not alone in feeling left out. Whatever you decide to do, good luck.
 
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