SOCIAL SECURITY DISABIILTY FOR DEPRESSION OR MENTAL ILLNESS

"Can I get Social Security disability benefits for mental impairments, such as depression or panic disorder?"

The answer:  Yes, if your symptoms are so severe that they prevent you from working, and if you have medical records to prove it.

Social Security will review your medical treatment and evaluate the severity of your mental impairment.  Here is what they usually need to see to approve benefits:

• A long history of persistent mental illness
• Consistent and current medical treatment
• Severe symptoms that may have required hospitalization in the past
• The loss of functional limitation that will prevent the ability to perform even simple, unskilled jobs.

Age is not as critical in mental impairments because even a younger person in good physical health cannot work if he/she can't sustain the mental demands of work.

Expect to be denied in the initial stage.  To win, you will probably have to file and appeal and attend a hearing before an administrative law judge.  Not many applications are approved initially for mental illness, unfortunately.  You have a better chance with the judge, however.
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