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Get Social Security Disability Benefits for Depression in Ohio

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Depression drains so much of the feeling from your life. It’s a weight that can stifle your ability to function, including working and earning an income.

But can you get financial help for depression? Millions of people have it, after all—21 million U.S. adults have experienced major depressive episodes according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

You need to know this: Social Security Disability benefits absolutely can provide monthly income support when depression robs you of the ability to work.

Some people think you can’t get benefits like this for mental health struggles. But workers dealing with mental health problems are one of the largest groups getting Social Security Disability benefits, over 2 million of them in recent numbers. Almost 1 million have depression-related disorders.

And you don’t have to grapple with the Social Security Disability application process on your own. An experienced, compassionate disability lawyer can do the heavy lifting for you—so you can get economic relief and the space you need to manage your condition and recover your life.

In Ohio, Horenstein, Nicholson & Blumenthal (HNB) has helped thousands of people.

Our Ohio disability attorneys work at no cost to you until you win benefits. Read more about getting disability benefits for depression—or get in touch with us now.

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    How to Get Disability Benefits for Depression: Your Symptoms

    Everyone gets sad from time to time. It’s hard to get some people to understand that severe depression isn’t sadness. It’s suffocation, numbness, emotional paralysis.

    The main qualification for Social Security Disability benefits is having health problems that prohibit working. Because every case of depression is different— because it sometimes gets worse, sometimes gets better—winning disability benefits requires documenting for Social Security how your symptoms mean you can’t work.

    Social Security says symptoms it will consider for “depressive, bipolar and related disorders” include:

    • Agitated movement
    • Appetite changes
    • Body weight changes
    • Difficultly concentrating
    • Energy crashes
    • Feelings of hopelessness
    • Feelings of worthlessness
    • Guilt
    • Irritability
    • Loss of interest in most activities
    • Mood instability
    • Sleep problems
    • Social withdrawal
    • Suicidal thinking

    The Ohio disability lawyers at HNB will listen to what you experience with depression and identify how you could be successful claiming disability benefits.

    You can talk to us from anywhere in Ohio. We have offices in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton. It’s always free to give us a call and find out how you might take a step forward.

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    An HNB lawyer can help you document your neck or back pain symptoms and prove to Social Security that you should receive disability benefits.

    Proving Your Case of Disability for Depression

    It’s one thing to tell Social Security you suffer from symptoms like the ones listed above, and they block you from working. You also have to prove it.
    How do you do that? You’re the only one who really knows what you’re going through.

    There are ways, which a skilled Social Security Disability lawyer will know. The key is gathering the observations of others, especially health care professionals like doctors, nurses, physician assistants, therapists, counselors or social workers.

    Social Security will accept forms of medical evidence like these:

    • Records of your psychiatric or psychological history
    • Details of your medical history
    • Results of mental status exams
    • Reports from clinical interviews
    • Information from psychiatric or psychological rating scales
    • Measures by professionals of how you adapt to the world around you
    • Psychological testing results
    • Medical imaging, if applicable
    • Medical lab results
    • Details of medications you take
    • Details of therapy you receive
    • Observations of you during treatment
    • Reports from your health care providers of speech changes
    • Reports of movement changes
    • Observations from other people who know you besides health care workers

    An important part of winning your claim for disability benefits for a mental health condition like depression is also showing how your condition has developed over time.

    Your case is stronger when you have a long record of seeking help. Your disability lawyer knows what medical evidence to look for and how to find it.

    You’re not alone when you have an Ohio Social Security Disability lawyer from Horenstein, Nicholson & Blumenthal building your case and treating you with care and dignity throughout.

    If depression has disrupted your life and livelihood, let us help you reach a steadier, better place.

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    Getting Social Security Disability benefits for neck or back pain is complicated, but HNB knows all your options.