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SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY, SSI FOR BIPOLAR DISORDER

Can you get ssd ssi disability for bipolar disorder?


Sometimes referred to as manic depression, bipolar disorder is a mental disorder that is characterized by contrasting periods of euphoric mania and listless depression.

Bipolar disorder, by definition, is a mental disorder that involves changes in mood. Most Bipolar individuals have depression and manic periods. However, moods are not always so clearly defined in a bipolar individual, because many suffer from mixed mood periods. Mixed mood episodes, or mixed states, may include clinical depression and mania, resulting in anger, belligerence, delusional behavior, insomnia, fatigue, suicidal thoughts, and many other behavioral symptoms. In fact, most suicide attempts are made during a mixed state episode.

Bipolar individuals are 10 –20 times more likely to commit suicide than the general population and, in the United States, marriages that involve at least one bipolar individual have nearly a ninety percent failure rate.

Bipolar disorder is a listed impairment in the social security administration's impairment listing manual. Therefore, a claimant with bipolar can win social security disability benefits either by satisfying certain criteria or by having the determination made that they can no longer perform their past work or any other type of work.

Claimants with bipolar disorder should remember that all disability claims are approved or denied on the basis of medical records. Therefore, a bipolar individual should strive to maintain a consistent and ongoing schedule of treatment. Ideally, this would include developing a history of treatment with a qualified psychiatric professional.

To find more information about the ssd and ssi programs, view the links below.



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