Mental health conditions are difficult to deal with but also largely invisible. Even people with the most debilitating conditions likely won’t have symptoms all the time. Additionally, some people with the same diagnosis have a far worse affliction than others. The sliding scale of severity for mental health issues is one significant complicating factor…
In some cases, people are born with mental disorders and conditions that they will have for their entire lives. This could just be due to genetics or, in cases like cerebral palsy, due to mistakes made during birth. In many cases, though, these disorders manifest or appear later in life. This is known as…
Mental health disorders, just like physical conditions, cause a broad range of different symptoms in different people. Some of the more common and frequently observed symptoms that people struggle with when they have mental health concerns include difficulties with executive function, which can make getting complicated tasks done difficult. Other people may experience anxiety or…
Patients with physical impairments often hold on to a glimmer of hope that treatment or new advancements in medicine will emerge that will allow doctors to reverse the signs and symptoms associated with their conditions. The prospects may be much dimmer for individuals suffering from cognitive impairments, though. Individuals with brain, memory or neurologic…
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) serves as a critical safety net for those dealing with an injury or an illness. People contribute to this program over the course of their working lives. When a condition is so severe that it prevents someone from working a job or impacts their ability to care for themselves,…