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You know how bipolar disorder impacts your life.

Maybe high-energy episodes make you act and treat people in ways you’d never do without this mental health condition. Depressive episodes might make it impossible even to get out of the house, let alone maintain steady work.

Bipolar can throw your life into such confusion that you ask: Can you get disability for bipolar?

If you can’t maintain a job, Social Security Disability benefits could provide a new foundation of regular income and Medicare health coverage.

And yes—Social Security recognizes bipolar disorder as a qualifying condition for disability benefits.

Here’s the hard part: You must prove that your bipolar disorder leaves you unable to work much at all.

It’s hard because other people can’t see what you feel. Explaining bipolar to someone who hasn’t experienced it is tricky.

Millions of people have bipolar—the National Institute of Mental Health says it’s almost 3 percent of all U.S. adults—and millions can continue working while managing their condition with medication and therapy.

You have to demonstrate to Social Security how your individual case of bipolar is severe enough to rule out working.

You don’t have to do it alone.

Horenstein, Nicholson & Blumenthal (HNB) is a team of Ohio disability lawyers who know how to present a disability benefits claim for bipolar disorder. You can get us to support your claim for benefits without paying a fee until you win.

HNB has helped thousands of people for over 40 years in Cincinnati, Cleveland Columbus, Dayton and every corner of Ohio. We can stand up for you when you need disability benefits for bipolar disorder.

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    What You Need to Get Social Security Disability for Bipolar Disorder

    Because some people see the concept of a “disability” as a physical condition or limitation, they think you can’t get Social Security Disability for a condition like bipolar.

    But bipolar, along with other mental health disorders like anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is expressly covered by Social Security Disability. In recent years mental conditions have been the category of impairments with the second largest number of disability benefits recipients.

    A misunderstood condition like bipolar, however, does come with challenges in a disability benefits application.

    You need to confirm your case with evidence that you experience symptoms Social Security recognizes for bipolar disorder, including:

    • Depressed or hopeless moods
    • Elevated or expansive moods
    • Irritability
    • Loss of impulse control
    • Difficulty concentrating
    • Tendency to drop tasks
    • Rapid speech
    • Sleep disturbance
    • Swings in weight
    • Social withdrawal
    • Suicidal thoughts

    Social Security will also evaluate how well you understand and use information, how you interact with others, how you stay on pace with tasks, how you regulate your own behavior, and how you react to changes or unexpected events in the world around you.

    It seems like an overwhelming to-do list, documenting all these points. But you don’t have to do it on your own.

    You can hand the heavier work over to the disability lawyers at HNB and breathe easier knowing that your disability case is in good hands.

    Start with a FREE disability lawyer evaluation of your case.

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    I've Got the Symptoms of Bipolar. How Do I Make Social Security Believe Them?

    You know you experience symptoms like the ones listed above. How do you prove it to someone else?

    And how do you prove that your symptoms of bipolar disorder are severe enough that you can’t work, that they’re different from the millions of others who can?

    It’s all about “objective” evidence, meaning observations, tests and testimony from other people—additional sources to back up your own reports of what you endure with bipolar disorder.

    This is the kind of evidence we’re talking about:

    • Detailed reports from your psychiatrist, psychologist, or other mental health providers
    • Results from psychological testing
    • Therapy and treatment notes, including whether your condition itself makes it harder for you to stick to treatment
    • Reports showing how your condition persists despite treatment
    • Records showing you’ve been dealing with bipolar disorder for at least two years
    • Doctors’ assessments that your inability to work because of bipolar has already lasted or certainly will last a year
    • A history of medications you take and their side effects
    • Medical reports on any other health conditions that could be combining with bipolar to prevent you from working
    • Statements from family, friends, coworkers, and others who know you about how they’ve seen bipolar disorder affect you

    It’s hard to focus on gathering and organizing all of this information even when you’re not coping with a significant mental health struggle.

    So HNB disability attorneys do it for you. And not only do we know what you need to submit, we know how to present it for the best chance of winning disability benefits.

    Financial help from Social Security Disability can give you the stability you need to regain control of your life.

    Let us help you get there.

    Contact an Ohio disability lawyer now.

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