For anyone needing help with their claim, our free disability Ebooks are a reliable source.
The Social Security Disability Puzzle: How to Fit the Pieces Together and Win Your Claim
Veterans Disability Claims: Strategies for a Winning Campaign
Disability Insurance Policies: How to Unravel the Mystery and Prove Your Claim and for more detailed information on applying for benefits, follow the link below to download a free copy of my White Paper, How to Win Disability Benefits for Mental Disorders.
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Collecting disability benefits for a mental health impairment can be difficult. You don’t have the same type of medical evidence available as you would for a physical impairment. For most mental disorders—like depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, or anxiety—there are no Xrays, MRIs, or other concrete ways to measure and prove disability.
Most mental disorders are evaluated based on symptoms you have explained to your doctors throughout your illness and course of treatment. Symptoms like feeling sad, extreme mood changes, paranoia, excessive fears, or hallucinations.
Disability claims for people facing a mental disorder, or a combination of mental and physical disorders, are often challenged by insurance companies, the SSA, and the VA. If this has been your experience, it may be time to seek legal help to prove you are indeed disabled.
Social Security arranges mental impairments in eleven broad categories, which are:
Neurocognitive disorders; Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders; Depressive, bipolar, and related disorders; Intellectual disorder; Anxiety and obsessivecompulsive disorders; Personality and impulsecontrol disorders; Autism spectrum disorder; Neurodevelopmental disorders; Eating disorders and; Trauma and stressrelated disorders
For example, disorders in the Neurocognitive category are characterized by a decline in cognitive functioning — such as Alzheimer’s, progressive brain tumor, or neurological diseases like Parkinson’s.
Each disorder has medical criteria you must meet or equal in terms of severity, frequency and duration of symptoms. If you succeed, you are considered disabled by the SSA. If you don’t meet the medical criteria, your next step is to prove you are disabled based on vocational factors—in other words, you are not able to perform your past work or any other work.
Don’t be discouraged, because it’s by proving these functional steps that most SSDI cases are won.
Finally, Disability claims for mental disorders, whether for Social Security, Long Term Disability Insurance, or Veterans Compensation, are won and lost based on evidence. And most of that evidence depends on your medical records, treatment notes, and submitted questionnaires. The most important thing you can do to win a claim for your mental disorder is to continue your medical treatment.
This is true even if you believe the treatment had not helped you. The reason to continue your treatment is to show that you are not getting better. A claims examiner who sees that you have stopped seeking treatment is more likely to find that your condition “is not that bad.” By continuing treatment up to and throughout your claim, your claims examiner will be informed by qualified doctors who have treated you over months and possibly years.
Our legal team works closely with doctors to ensure their supporting evidence is well presented. While this is not a guarantee, it is one of many important steps towards success!