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 Benefits For Mental Conditions
What kinds of mental health issues qualify someone for SSDI?
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...
Mental disorders and SSDI benefits
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....
Disability benefits may be available for people with amnesia
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...
Can I get Social Security disability for mental illness?
Disabled individuals suffering from a disability related to a mental health condition may be able to receive Social Security disability (SSD) benefits to help with their expenses and needs. Because Social Security disability benefits are important for many disabled...
Intellectually impaired loved ones aren’t guaranteed disability
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...
The different types of memory disorders and how they impact you
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...
How debilitating is schizophrenia?
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...
The 11 categories of mental conditions
Mental conditions can be categorized in a number of different ways, but, for the sake of seeking benefits, it is important to know that the Social Security Administration puts them into 11 general categories. These help to give structure to the process, and they also...
Is it hard to get Social Security disability for mental health?
Data published by the Social Security Administration (SSA) shows that 8 million individuals were receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) in 2017. At least one-quarter of those had a mental health condition listed as their primary impairment. Many of the...