If you want to claim BP and depression are serious impairments effecting your ability to engage in SGA (again, making $1090 per month) than you will be expected to have longitudinal records of intensive mental health treatment with a psychiatrist or a psychiatrist and a licensed therapist. Going once or twice a year for meds will be viewed by SS that your impairments are adequately be managed with medication alone. Weekly appointments with a therapist would be the norm. Many people end up amending their Alleged Onset Date to when they started going to weekly therapy, for example.

When you go to your ALJ hearing the ALJ or your attorney will ask the Vocational Expert whether certain accommodations would be allowed in order for you to manage to work. The ALJ will also determine if those limitations are consistent with your medical record. Some employers might allow you to keep your feet elevated at a desk job several times a day, for example.

Being able to safely drive at the end of your work day will not be a consideration, btw. If you need to utilize public transportation, than that is what SS will expect you to do. You might get some feedback from those active in the PN forum about how severe there disorder was for those with lower extremity issues before they were approved for SSDI. Understand that even those that require a cane to ambulate are often denied. It is only when an applicant requires the use of a walker that they are approved with a Listed Impairment.

One last thing, just because you had a negative experience with one neurologist, I don't really understand why you don't try to find one that you can work with. It is doubtful that SS will consider your PN as a serious problem unless you see a neurologist or someone else that specializes in PN.. You ARE expected to exhaust all options of treatment before AND after being approved for SSDI, so that you can potentially return to work. Just because you can reference an article from 2003, which will be considered outdated anyway, doesn't mean that SS will accept such an opinion. Since PN is a Listed Impairment, they have expectations of how a person with severe limitations should be handling their treatment. (--Considering your GP has zero experience with the disorder, he can't possibly be your best treating option.)

What do your employment records state regarding why you left? In other words, what is the school district's version of your employment in the year prior to your Alleged Onset Date? Did you ever request special accommodations due to your PN before quitting, for example?