Winning a Social Security Disability Case With Anxiety, Depression or Bipola r

Hi, my name is Neil Good. Today I'm going to talk about how to win a case with a mood disorder such as anxiety, depression, or bipolar disorder. So with social security, what we recommend are three main things. Number one, you have a treating specialist, not a primary care doctor, but a psychiatrist or a psychologist. Number two, good medical records that support what you're saying. The third thing that we look for is statements from a doctor. So we have questionnaires that when we get near a court date, we will send to you to have your doctor say, in social security terms, you can't work because the doctor's not allowed to say this person can't work. They have to give you psychological limitations that would stop you from working. So what does social security look for in the medical records and how do they break it down? Well, they really break it down into what I would say are four main areas. The first one is concentration, persistence, and pace. So what do the documents say, what do the medical records say about your ability to concentrate? Because to have any job, social security believes that you need to be able to concentrate, even minimal concentration, for at least two hours. So if you're getting lost in your conversations or you're not completing sentences, then they find that that's a problem with concentration. Another area that they're very concerned about is your memory. Is your short-term memory good? Is it bad? Can you learn something? Is your anxiety, depression, or bipolar disorder so bad that it's gonna affect your ability to learn even a simple task? The next thing that they're concerned about is how do you interact with the public, your co-workers, and supervisors? So they call that social interaction. So what do the documents say about getting in fights with people, arguing with your boss, things like that? So and they look at those three areas of the public, your employer, and co-workers. Another area they look at is adapting. So the fourth area that they look at is adaptation. How do you adapt to changes in your situation? So for example, if you're at a job and you're putting together boxes and the boss says, I need you to go sweep the floor over here, and you're so upset or have so much anxiety or so depressed that once they take you off that one task, you can't adapt to do anything else. I hope this has been helpful today. Thank you for listening. If we can be of assistance to you, please call us at 800-419-7606, or you can reach out to us through our website, thegoodlawgroup.com.