Social Security Disability Benefits For Mental Conditions

In some cases, people are born with mental disorders and conditions that they will have for their entire lives. This could just be due to genetics or, in cases like cerebral palsy, due to mistakes made during birth.  In many cases, though, these disorders manifest or...

Mental health disorders, just like physical conditions, cause a broad range of different symptoms in different people. Some of the more common and frequently observed symptoms that people struggle with when they have mental health concerns include difficulties with...

Patients with physical impairments often hold on to a glimmer of hope that treatment or new advancements in medicine will emerge that will allow doctors to reverse the signs and symptoms associated with their conditions. The prospects may be much dimmer for...

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) serves as a critical safety net for those dealing with an injury or an illness. People contribute to this program over the course of their working lives. When a condition is so severe that it prevents someone from working a...

Many people in Oklahoma suffer from emotional and mental conditions such as depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder. In many cases, the disorder becomes so intense that it interferes with a person’s ability to work....

Amnesia robs a person of their identity and their memories. This condition may leave an individual with short-term memory losses in some instances. Other people who have amnesia may struggle to remember who they are. Memory loss generally doesn't affect a person's...

The terminology "mental retardation" isn't used as often in the United States now as it once was. The terms that are more commonly utilized to refer to these types of individuals include "developmentally disabled" and "intellectually impaired". Persons with certain...

Memory orders can take on many different forms. There are Alzheimer's disease, hydrocephalus, dementia vascular cognitive and mild cognitive impairments. Each of them may affect a patient distinctly. Many rob an individual of their ability to remember things, others...

If there's such a thing as a minor mental health disorder then schizophrenia is not one of them. This condition is included in publications such as the Social Security Administration's (SSA) Listing of Impairments largely because it's a chronic and serious mental...