The only way you can file a reconsideration request is if you were hit by unnatural link warnings.
I was back in March when all of the crappy link networks were deindexed. So if you were affected by unnatural link warnings than you will need to file, otherwise you wont recover mate. I was told for months that I would recover just to give it time. Finally I said enough was enough and did somethign about it.
It takes a lot of hard work though because you need to remove the links and clean up your link profile before submitting. If you don't you will not recover. Dont just use the disavow tool because thats not enough either as Google told us many many times.
If you clean up your links then you can file and win (after a while) but it takes time so get started soon. It took me 3 months to get my penalty removed.