Your mental health condition can be the basis for a successful Social Security disability or SSI claim, if the condition is severe enough to prevent you from working.

Simply having a diagnosis such as “anxiety,” “depression” or “bipolar disorder,” is not enough for the Social Security Administration to grant you benefits. Rather, you must show that your mental health conditon is severe enough to keep you from sustaining employment.

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As a general rule, claimants with mental impairments should have an experienced disability attorney to help with the Social Security disability or SSI claim process.

We will work with your psychiatrist, psychologist, therapist or counselor to help with your Social Security claim. We will seek their opinion regarding the severity of your mental health conditon.

Also, we can help these medical professionals to translate your mental symptoms into functional limitations that the Social Security Administration will use to evaluate your ability to do work-related activities.

For help with your Social Security disability or SSI claim, please contact the Law Office of Gordon Gates for a free consultation.

You pay no fee unless you are granted benefits.