What if I apply for disability for anxiety but have not had recent treatment?
If you have no medical treatment or your medical treatment is more than ninety days prior to your filing for disability for anxiety, you do not have enough objective medical evidence for the disability examiner to make their disability determination. In order to get the necessary evidence, you will attend a consultative examination with a doctor paid by Social Security. These are often fairly short examinations to provide a minimal mental status for the disability examiner to make their determination.
While these examinations are often not that thorough, they are better than having no medical evidence to support your disability claim. You should remember the minute you go into the consultative doctor's you are being evaluated. Of course, you should not overstate the problems caused by your anxiety, but you should not down play the affect your anxiety has on your every day life.
Social Security will pay for your consultative examination. You are only responsible for getting to the examination.
About the Author: Tim Moore is a former Social Security Disability Examiner in North Carolina, has been interviewed by the NY Times and the LA Times on the disability system, and is an Accredited Disability
Representative (ADR) in North Carolina. For assistance on a disability application or Appeal in NC, click here.
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