bipolar auditory hallucinations
For quite a while, I noticed that many people are visiting my site looking for information on disability is the disability benefit, especially with regard to bipolar disorder.
While I have not found it surprising that would happen (bipolar disorder is a terrible disease and neurochemical is much more than its parts constituent – depression and manic behavior – would imply), I have to admit I was surprised at the level of occurrence. In short, there are many more bipolar cases out there than I had thought.
You may be wondering why I was surprised and what is my particular experience, to account for this surprise. Well, I am a former case worker for Medicaid and, most important, I am a former disability claims examiner for the social security administration. In this last position, he was my role, on a daily basis, receive new disability cases, send out medical records, review of the records when they came, and then, in consultation with a doctor, make a decision on a claim.
I did this job for several years and, therefore, may have come through almost all (although certainly not all) the medical condition whereby a person can file for imaginably
disability benefits. And Clearly, I met a good number of cases for which bipolar disorder is a primary statement. But I do not recall seeing as many bipolar cases as currently see now.
What could be the reason for the increase in bipolar disorder cases? I have wondered about it many times. Some people might say that the disease is diagnosed, and that view has
are dumped in ADHD. But I do not think this is the case and here's why: Bipolar disorder usually requires the use of prescription drugs for proper management. Bipolar also occurs frequently in combination with other diseases or disorders such as OCD obsessive-compulsive disorder and ADHD, or attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity (and yes, it is not unknown for a patient to be treated simultaneously for all these conditions). Of course, anyone who has been placed in a drug treatment regime that attempts to treat several conditions simultaneously will automatically know what kind of problems this may pose.
What are the problems? To begin, a drug that works well for ten million other patients can not work at all for one. Or you can work well for a while and then do not work
all. Or there may be side effects to medications that are somewhat unpleasant and / or encourage other psychological problems (weight gain, sexual performance problems, to name a few). Throw in more prescription drugs to treat other conditions (in our example, we cite OCD and ADHD) and is introduced into the equation variables: MED is a denial of the power of B Med, B is overenhance med the effects of C Med, is med med C in combination with physical or mental problems a different cause to the surface, etc, etc
For these reasons (all boiling up to the fact that very strong medications with strong effects and consequences are being prescribed), sincerely doubt that bipolar disorder is
diagnosed, or is not well identified on a large scale.
In fact, the opposite may be happening. That is, mental health professionals may simply be the improved ability to diagnose correctly this disease. In addition, individuals with
Bipolar disorder can, as a result of greater recognition and understanding of their illness, are more likely to initiate requests for disability.
One might ask "Why did not anyone file for disability benefits when they have a condition that affects so deeply? "This may go back to the part of" greater recognition and understanding. "I refer to this example, which, in my case, comes from my personal life. I have a brother who is now ambulatory shock therapy. For confidentiality reasons, I will refer to him as Bob. Among its various conditions diagnosed, Bob has a particularly serious case of bipolar disorder. And for many years, was unable, despite many attempts to maintain employment for more than 90 days. However, despite this fact, despite its many problems with receiving the correct medication, and despite the fact that he has been receiving ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) for over a year — he still has at least two members of the family that somehow that "they should have tried harder."
Such thinking is understandable, of course, given the facts of Situation Bob. However, the position taken by members of the family, probably had much to do with what Bob did not file a
disability application much earlier. Moreover, the pressure on Bob by family members to "keep trying to work" may have hastened his descent into auditory hallucinations and shock therapy.
Therefore, "if" the increase in disability applications submitted on the basis of bipolar disorder can be explained by one or both of the following —
1. greater capacity of mental health professionals to recognize the symptoms.
2. empathy and understanding of bipolar disorder by family members.
— Then this is certainly a good thing.
If this is really happening, of course, is a matter that is under discussion. But in any case, more information is always intrinsically and inherently valuable. And for this end, the following information may help a bipolar patient has been presented for either disability benefits or is considering filing: The Social Security Disability and SSI FAQ page of my own site.
The author of this article is Tim Moore, a former Disability claims examiner.
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