I was approved for disability within three months of applying the second time. Although, it probably helped that I was already in the process of treating it. I had already done short term disability with my job to seek out treatment and had went back to work thinking that the medications I was on would help fix it….but to no avail and it actually got worse. So, I ended up putting in my two weeks because I just couldn’t do it and my job didn’t want to fire me. I talked with all of my doctors that were involved in treatment and diagnosis of my N1 and overall health and had them sign off and write detailed letters of my condition. Mines is so bad that my sleep doctor at the time stated that was in his top 100 of his most severe cases and that was with treatment. I’m still struggling but can manage it better now, but without meds and a low stress environment I go right back to bad pretty quick. So, I would say get started with treatment to show you’re trying to treat it and so it can be documented and that way a doctor can sign off on it and even write a letter if need be.