Mental illness and disability

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Last week, I wrote a post describing a case that will be denied because of my client’s poorly worded testimony.  Today, I want to continue this theme and talk about a far more common basis for hearing denials – gaps in medical treatment or absence of medical treatment. I save hearing decisions in the cases [...]

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In Dec. 13, 2007 you responded to my question on your Social Security Disability podcast about non compliance and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). I had tried numerous antidepressant medications with no success. I was desperate for answers and sought out a new psychiatrist  who specializes in electroconvulsive therapy.  After he conducted my fourth of six ECT [...]

I was diagnosed last Thursday by my neurologist with post traumatic stress syndrome resulting from three MVA’s.  I have other related injuries and have tried to do several jobs, after a long career, and cannot do it.  Is there any relief for me? I did pay into social security from 1982 to 1989 but from [...]

I have been to vocational rehab and they ran some evaluationsand they found that i have no marketable skills and i am going to mental health and i am under a case manager and a phychiatrist. Can i win disability with those problems and i also have degenerative disc disease and scolosis  Can I win [...]

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Mr. Ginsberg, I am a dwm 45, no children, no criminal record, no drug/alcohol problems. I have been diagnosed to have Major Depression, Generalized Anxiety, Schizoid Personality Disorders. I have had 23 jobs in the last ten years with several gaps of unemployment. I have had two psychological tests with conflicting results but were all [...]

In 1972 at age16 I sustained head injuries from a motorboat propeller resulting in lobectomy to my right frontal and parietal lobes. I was left with epilepsy, which has been controlled with medication from ’81 to 2004 when I had 2 seizures after I was let go from my last place of employment. The main [...]

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With delays in the Social Security disability adjudication process taking as long as three years, it is inevitable that a claimant will pass away while waiting for a hearing.  Today, I tried a disability case for one of those individuals. My client initially met with me in June of 2004 and he passed away in [...]