Can I get on disability?

Strange. I had the same thing between the ages of 21 and 23. I still get it now and again (often, but no longer 24/7.) I know what causes mine. It was treatable. Yours is a problem, not a medical condition. It doesn't become "a medical condition" until you start getting the medical community involved. You'd think you would have done the obvious by now - go see a doctor.

And, I'll even give you a warning, don't accept a diagnosis from any doctor without tests. Some of them merely guess and give out drugs without finding out if they guessed right. That merely wastes your time - at least the time it takes you to try the drugs just to find out none of them work, because the jerk didn't bother testing to find out what the problem was in the first place. If you get one of those doctors, keep going to more and more doctors until you find one willing to look into the cause of the problem.

If you have what I have, you're going to laugh when you find out how common it is. Then again, I'm not telling, because I'm not a doctor and it could be something else entirely. So you're up to a point in your life where you could either spend the rest of your life cuddled up on that sofa or get off it and find out what's wrong. If you choose the sofa, then, yes, I do think you're lazy with your hand out. You can keep your hand out for the rest of your life. As it stands now, no one is putting anything in it. Now, go find out what's wrong. Geesh! (And why didn't your girlfriend suggest you do that instead?)

Sounds like you don't even have a diagnosis which means that nothing is being done to improve the situation. At this point I don't see how social security could possibly approve a claim for disability. For one thing (and it's a major one) the medical evidence must show that you have a disability so severely disabling that you will be unable to work for at least one full year. You need to get under treatment if you aren't already to determine the cause of your problems so that your symptoms can be alleviated.

And by the way, social security IS disability. There are social security disability benefits, retirement benefits and survivor benefits. Plus Medicare. Because you have been working you would be entitled to social security disability benefits IF you would be unable to work for at least a year. It isn't a welfare benefit because you've been paying social security taxes. If you met the disability requirements (which you don't) you will have earned every penny of your benefit and it is NOT a hand-out. That is what social security benefits are all about - covering people in case of disability, etc.

Social Security also manages a program called SSI (Supplemental Security Income) which is a welfare program for people who are disabled, blind or over age 64 who have never worked or not long enough to collect social security OR they have a very low social security benefit. Disability requirements are the same as for social security benefits.

Why would you want to? Disability is $698 a month. In some places you can't even pay the rent with that.