Do you have an attorney rep to help you at hearing I presume?

Michael, have you considered a less arduous job, low stress job? Earn less but downsize and take the stress off the mind?

Fingers crossed for him, Julie. I wish him much improved health though, nonetheless. I hope you a meaningful and enjoyable Memorial Day!

@@AllThingsSocialSecurity Thank you!

The difficulty is not usually determing the impairment, but whether it is severe and THEN, is it severe enough to be limiting in functions enough to prevent the class of occupations you'd otherwise be able to do based on your physical capacities. You say the CE report was in your favor? What did it say that you can confirm would eliminate all otherwise available jobs of the 12000+ jobs that must be considered? Do you know what you are looking for in that report and what you must look at in addition to it to get to the answer? Know also, the SSA need not embrace the opinion of the "independent" (uh hum) CEs... so if one said, say, that a person needs to be institutionalized, and the other records show he can function minimally but sufficiently without institutionalization, and that he could do a simple unskilled low stress job not involving the public, then the CE may not be taken as reliable/credible. And no treatment records, combined with say, being able to sustain oneselve in the community, could very well show the realities of a person able to function enough for the 5th grader jobs (thereby not being unable to perform ALL). There are many many factors that get considered.

Thank you for this share! And I am sorry for your medical problems - it cannot be easy. I am surprised they are accepting as gospel the family guy, who is not a mental health expert, since you don't mention needing any more hospitalizations (which for some would represent improvement, particular since you don't even require mental health treatment per se, beyond what a family dr prescribes) but I am glad for you!

@@AllThingsSocialSecurity I'm likely on an FBI watch list for what I wrote in my long form CDRs. That likely had something to do with it.

@@SparkyTom1 Ouch! But, apparently many of us may be... I may be a parent ______.

Regardless, no psychiatrist for 24 years. Sent to one in 2020 and no issues.

@@SparkyTom1 those hospitalization must have told quite the story. When it is, it is. Hope you are well this weekend!

It is important in that is shows a decompensation of great magnitude that was disabling for that time period of inpatient for sure. It shows it happened once, not twice or more. However, then there is improvement, go get out...so It is not conclusive but can help support the vigorous outpatient treatment by a psychiatrist and a counselor - whose statements will then be largely considered. Hopefully they do not keep the exent of your sypmtoms to themselves but put them in their session notes that they are willing to release.

It's happened before, several times. The first time I was locked up for 2 weeks for a suicide attempt. The second time I escaped the hospital before they tried to admit me. I also had a suicide attempt in jail, but they didn't take me to the hospital. They just threw me in a padded cell and left me there for a week. I also have arrest records that prove impulsiveness. And records from the IRS that shows I've never been able to hold a job for over 6 months. I'm just trying to find evidence to bring up with my lawyer. They only took my case a little over a week ago.

@@monsters_are_human I am so sorry for your pain. I'd get ALL those records for each and every thing. The work records the SSA already has. Speak to your lawyer of course, but often getting proof of that legal involvement is great evidence to proof various things; jail records may or may not fess up the the suicide attempt, but check. Your lawyer will have great ideas I am sure.

Medical evidence primarily, throughout the period in question, as a general rule. It can be a catch 22 though, as often the severely mentally ill do not have the capacity to follow with medical and so they have no evidence of current medical/mental condition.

GREAT question! Everything does NOT change when you turn 50. And nothing changes for YOU at 50. Rather, for claimants, we we age, the law recognizes at a certain point an aged person naturally, and generally, is less able (not unable) to adjust to other work he has never done before. So to the point that question of other work one can do, the minor tweak at 50, recognizing that some jobs may be off limits due to adjustment issues (vs. physical), eliminates some of the 12000 jobs that a claimant has to prove he cannot do for medical reasons. However, it does not eliminate many/most and he must still medical prove the others are off limits too.

Nope, they do not. Your attorney can get it though from ERE immediately.

Takes about 5 months after being diagnosed by the social security Dr, then you will receive a check in your bank. I’m writing to you because I helped my daughter .

@@matchie01sc Hmm, that is very slow. I usually see a determination within about 10 days, NORMALLY, but during these slow times, I may have had one go as long as 30 days. Not sure why your daughters took such a terribly long time. It may be that her medical records were continuing to be born but if you daughter didn't provide them timely (the updates) and SSA decided (thankfully) to order a second round itself (vs. just making determination good or bad without on the first). Glad she eventually prevailed, although sorry it took so long though.

Well, what you and I say is not what makes up the law or fact, so it generally depends on whether a person's treatment, like other impairments; treatments, works sufficiently to allow him to work some simple full time job or, if it does not, but does help him have functioning for a better life, but not so much as to reliably and satisfactorily to an employer, attend to a full tme job. Many folks with significant mental health conditions, with proper treatment, are fortunate enough to get out there and self-sustain, but not all, so each person is different with their own unique case and evidence.

Hi StLouis, I am sorry you are having an issue. I believe you have misheard what this video is about. We are NOT talking about the Listings, so perhaps re-listen. No one said any particular mixture of evidence is absolute. In fact, I think I reiterated more than once, that these are general concepts - there are many ways to skin this cat. We are talking about EVIDENCE and what in practice is stronger vs. weaker evidence, if someone wishes to know. For those like yourself who do not want to know, all good. Go read the Listings and enjoy. That is the easy part of course. A claimant cannot change or adjust listings, nor RFC results, but often he/she CAN help himself by helping his evidence, or understanding what evidence tends to be more persuasive than other in evidencing the element of an SSD claim sought to be proven. I cannot tell you how many people become distraught when they have a claim that they lost because they lacked evidence of severe mental limitations. What WOULD be such evidence? they ask. Well, here is SOME. Treatment IS a a major factor in evidentiary value, and I am very sorry if you are not discerning what we are discussing here. If I can help clarify anything, please do let me know (please be respectful of course.) Certain treatment only occurs when an impairment, physical or mental, hits a certain level of severity or intrusiveness into quality of life. Other more garden variety treatment is had by 50% of the working population. The latter will be less evidencing of disabling severity than some of the former, of course. Your confusion on what this is about, that is OK. I don't profess to be able to speak all languages and I cannot meet the needs of all when it comes to providing information in a manner all can absorb. If I help 1-2 here and there, I am satisified, although the more the better of course. And for the record, I am not SSA, DDS employee or an ALJ :) Rather, I am a private attorney advocate who has practiced full time, only federal SSD/SSI, for nearly 20 years, with litigation and evidence based state practice prior thereto. But if you want to learn more, I urge you to study up on EVIDENCE and how that differs from the elements necessary for a fact-finder to come to his/her conclusion. Mind you, that concept is not limited to SSD/SSI cases, but it certainly holds here as well. I hope you have a wonderful and meaningful Memorial weekends and that you retain your benefits if you have prevailed in a claim, for as long as you remain disabled, if you are disabled. Maybe simmer your jets against those of us who are actually putting out information in the very field we practice in, vs. the plethora of clickbait silliness I see on YT for people trying to inflame others about SS to get them to view. That is clearly not me. My videos are boring, short, and off the cuff b/c my work day is, well, in the way ;) They are only intended to share bits here and there of 20 years of knowledge. Be well.

@@AllThingsSocialSecurity Thank you for your work and help/knowledge/insight!

@@AllThingsSocialSecurity to add to Stephanie's response, winning SSD is all about the evidence. Mental health issues cannot be imaged using an MRI or CT so there is no way for a Social Security adjudicator or judge to evaluate the degree of your impairment without evidence of severity. Add to the mix the pressure SSA decision makers get from Congress who seem to believe that most disability claims are fraudulent. The end result is that if you hope to win disability based on a mental health condition, your medical record needs to include things like in-patient or extensive out-patient mental health hospitalizations, suicide attempts, and multiple failed medication trials. If you can't afford mental health treatment, you are out of luck. The bottom line is that winning SSD based solely on a mental health condition is extremely difficult. I have represented many such claimants who, in my opinion, would never be able to hold a job but who were denied mostly because they could not afford to obtain the treatment needed to build a record that would satisfy SSA.

@@redmilitant1559 Is what a 'requirement', Red? (Also, remember, SSI and SSDI are FEDERAL, not state law programs.)

@@redmilitant1559 Can you clarify? Is police records required for what?

Hi Bobby, if the 3 impairments cause more functional capacities for relevant work related tasks, then 3 makes a stronger case than less than less than 3 if none of the impairments alone, make you unable to perform all 12,500 jobs (in a nutshell). The MH limitations that prevent doing certain M tasks required in a job, or several, or all, combined with a bad knee that may prevent a job that is largely walking/standing, will certainly reduce. The key may be, does the MH symptoms (proven) interfere with the mental tasks required of EVERY job, including unskilled. When I get time, I will do a video on that those M tasks are the are required of ALL jobs, such that it there is a substantial loss in the capacity to do one of those M tasks, a person is disabled legally. I rely on those rules tremendously, when proving disability in a younger person with severe mental impairments. Fingers crossed for you Bobby, and a prayer too, that you prevail sooner rather than later. 1 on 1 therapy on to of group may be important evidence on top of the psychiatric medications management.

You are so very right!

There is a share a while back about Dx isn’t all that and even more recent about what makes a DX, then an MDI, then a severe MDI… because we need that last one.