How Can I Get Disability for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
When anxieties or compulsive behaviors rule your life, especially when you have tried unsuccessfully to confront and master them, it's hard enough just making it through the day, let alone finding and sustaining a job. Unfortunately, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is not always sympathetic to disability claims for anxiety-related disorders.
The SSA assumes that there is some job you can do that is compatible with your anxieties. Our disability benefits attorneys are skilled at proving that your disorder disqualifies you even from jobs with little exposure to your "triggers" or little interaction with other people.
Social Security Disability: PTSD, Panic Attacks and Anxiety Claims
It is possible to qualify for anxiety disorders based on severity of the symptoms or the increased anxiety in certain situations such as suppressing fears or obsessive-compulsive tendencies to function in a work setting. Our team helps obtain the necessary medical documentation to show the following:
- Generalized persistent anxiety accompanied by three of the following: motor tension, autonomic hyperactivity, apprehensive expectation, or vigilance and scanning
- Persistent irrational fear of a specific object, activity or situation that results in a compelling desire to avoid it
- Recurrent severe panic attacks on the average of at least once a week
- Recurrent obsessions or compulsions which are a source of marked distress
- Recurrent and intrusive recollections of a traumatic experience which are a source of marked distress
AND at least two of the following:
- Marked restriction of activities of daily living
- Marked difficulties in maintaining social functioning
- Marked difficulties in maintaining (workplace) concentration, persistence or pace
- Repeated episodes of decompensation ("mental breakdown"), each of extended duration
OR
Complete inability to function independently outside the area of one's home
We Have the Experience You Need to Make a Comprehensive Claim for Benefits
If your condition prevents you from working, the experienced professionals at Schwartzapfel Partners P.C. can help you convince the SSA. We know what it takes to compile all the necessary documentation for an initial claim. We also know how to best prepare for the appeals process. Our lawyers have a strong record of success with mental impairment claims, including anxiety disorders.*
Contact Our Disability Law Firm Today. You Pay No Attorneys Fees Unless We Win.
To learn more about obtaining Social Security Disability benefits for your anxiety disorder, call 888-801-1914 or contact our New York law firm online. There is no upfront cost for our case evaluation or cost for our representation unless we win benefits for you.
*Past results do not guarantee a future outcome.
