Can You Get Disability for Anxiety in Baltimore, DC & Virginia?

You know that anxiety isn’t just a mental condition. It’s physical, too: pounding heart, shallow breathing, sweating, stomach pain, exhaustion.

It can overwhelm your ability to focus and function in a job, or even leave the house.

Social Security Disability specifically covers three related anxiety conditions:

• Anxiety disorder
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
• Panic disorder

It lists the kinds of symptoms it will recognize in a qualifying disability claim for anxiety:

• Concentration problems
• Fatigue
• Inability to stay with and complete tasks
• Irritable mood
• Restlessness
• Sleep problems
• Tense muscles
• Trouble using information
• Trouble interacting with other people
• Trouble handling daily pressures, changes and self-care

You must document your symptoms by providing evidence like this:

• Psychological exams
• Interview notes
• Psychological testing
• Ratings on psychological scales
• Medical imaging
• Therapy program details
• Medication details

You have to make such a thick report when you apply for disability benefits because Social Security is always under pressure to make sure only the most deserving people get monthly checks because of bad health.

They’re looking to double-check and triple check all your information.

The service of disability advocates like Mathis & Mathis is to build your case for you, so you can avoid mistakes, increase your chances of winning benefits, and know that someone capable handling your benefits application.

You pay no fee for a disability advocate until you win benefits.

It’s also free to have a conversation with us, get answers on what your disability application for anxiety will require, and get started.

In addition to your symptoms of anxiety, and the medical evidence that confirms the seriousness of your symptoms, a successful disability claim for anxiety includes elements like these:

• Evidence that qualifies as “objective medical evidence,” meaning it comes from medical sources, not only your own reports about living with anxiety.

• “Medical sources” can include doctors, psychologists, physician assistants, psychiatric nurse practitioners and mental health counselors.

• Symptoms that Social Security considers to be a “marked limitation” or “extreme limitation,” which are the most severe two levels on five-point scale the government uses.

• Non-medical evidence from witnesses to your struggle with anxiety such as family, friends, neighbors, faith leaders, supervisors, co-workers, teachers and more.

• Records that your anxiety impairment is “serious and persistent,” meaning you’ve been struggling with it for at least two years.

• Details of how you function in unfamiliar situations, familiar situations, and more structured or supportive situations.

• Information on how treatment, therapy and other supports affect your anxiety disorder.

Your Mathis & Mathis disability advocate in Baltimore, D.C., and Virginia knows what information truly helps your case, what information doesn’t help, how to find the evidence you need, and how to present it Social Security.

With our team supporting your anxiety disability benefits case, the pressure is off you.

Our goal is to get you disability benefits so you can take care of yourself, live in peace, and look forward to better times.

Because applying for Social Security Disability benefits can be complicated, you likely have many questions about the process. Here are some answers to frequently asked questions.