I occasionally worked with a man in receiving at the warehouse on the campus I worked at. He unloaded trucks and moved product into these giant walk-in freezers. One wall of the freezer was glass. You could see this man working in there. You could also see him talking to himself, yelling at himself, hitting himself in the face! He also would have a fighting/screaming match with himself while driving himself about town. Many people were scared to death to be around him. But... he was the nicest guy when he was interacting with others. He could carry on with conversations, share his opinions, talk about projects at home. Idk what was going on with his mental health, but I think he was managing life as best he could and was definitely a hard worker. He definitely showed up for work like the rest of us who could.
We have a man that works really hard doing yard work. He will be nice to you. The thing is he carries around a notebook and jots all these notes down and he stares at himself in window glass. He then starts having a conversation with HIS OWN reflection. He's getting older now and I worry about him. If ANYONE deserves disability I'm sure he would.Hes been mowing yards for YEARS. I wish halfway houses would be brought back. This way he could still do his work but would have supervision to help with his other needs.
Could have been my schizophrenci son. He has a hard time keeping work because he scares people with his talking and cannot work with the public...as well, he needs constant supervision as he is incapable of following complex orders...but the nicest man you'd ever want to meet. I'm working on helping him get ssdi, hopefully just as a safety net, as he is limited in his jobs and has only managed to keep part time...all other places have fired him. I worry for him when I am no longer here to help support him as I am getting older
You stated your personal opinion that adversity makes most people stronger and supported it with one anecdote. This is identical logic to finding one person that survived Ebola without care and concluding it isn't a disease worthy of care and consideration.
I think he even pulled that anecdote from his ass. "Yes you can go back to being a soldier after being captured and r*ped due to being in a helicopter as it was shot down. It made you stronger, no SSDI for you, you can totally get your old job back. I heard it on a radio show, you don't have PTSD, you have Post Traumatic Growth Disorder." We should all go through that to make us better and more able to hold employment.
I was able to assist my dtr when she turned 18 to qualify for SSI Supplemental. I feel what really helped her qualify was the fact I kept all her records, medical records, IEPs, hospitalization from being in psychiatric hospitals. At the time we applied she had many different diagnosis over the years but predominantly had at least 3 that plays a key role in her disability. Schizo-effective disorder, CPTSD, DID
I was trying to get my daughter on SSI bipolar schizophrenic. She would be real good for maybe a month at work take off I'd have to put missing person reports on her eventually she fell through the cracks of the system and she died 27 I went back to work after 2 weeks it wasn't an option. After about 6 months Dr pulled me out of work diagnosed with PTSD avoidance. I was a problem solver at work in the automotive industry I had to focus and talk with customers as well about 2 years exhausted the account that I put into when I work the 41 years and they don't tell you have to refile for long-term no income for 5 months I went to their doctors and in 5 months I was approved never denied once here I was fighting for my daughter that kept getting denied she dies in a horrific fire and I end up what's wrong with that picture?
Social security psychologist couldn't even diagnose my ptsd. A real psychologist did it in one session. I was losing my mind. My husband was so worried. I'm permanently on medication. Medication has an effect on your memory and your social skills.
Thank you for this time you put into this video im sorry ppl can be uncomfortable or anger at this video i love to learn i love helping other i appreciate it ...thankful for the amazing honesty and knowledge...
Thankyou so much I got approved for Bipolar 1 at 22! this helped me so much. The mental health exam was very difficult as I got emotional having to answer some of the questions, but this video and others off of RUclips really helped me prepare my claim. It helped a lot that they let me bring my social worker/assigned counselor with me so I didn't have to go alone without a professional to help me through it. I think what helped my case the most was that I had 10+ work attempts since 16, I had around 10 inpatient hospitalizations, had been working with a therapist/psychiatrist for years, lived in a transition to independence group home for some time, & had a job coach I had been working with for about 2 years. The good news is I can keep my benefit and still work at my job, but I don't have to worry about staying afloat months when I need IOP or PHP visits when my episodes get bad. SSI does make a big difference for a lot of us!
That's great you were approved. 10 hospitalizations by age 22 certainly sounds like a disabling condition. I had one woman in her early 40s who'd had over 20 psychiatric hospitalizations for bipolar 1.
Having more than 3 disorders doesn’t mean you have an incompetent doctor, and post traumatic growth disorder is crap, very few people would grow from a situation of trauma. I have complex PTSD and I have not grown because of this. I have panic attacks and triggers that hit me often and at the worst times. I haven’t grown stronger from this but I have slowly had to learn how to manage this. I’m glad I don’t live in America. In Australia we do have to show or prove we have a mental health problem with psychiatric reports etc. and yes it takes time to approve but it sounds much better than this, also our claims are backdated to the time we put the claim in for the financial aid. I also go to the mental health hospital every 3 months for 1 month to have specialist medical treatment (TMS or trans magnetic stimulation). This helps me be more stable with my anxiety and depression than I used to be.
Trauma and response to trauma is actually pretty poorly understood. You can take the same person go through two traumatic events and not develop ptsd and then after a third they get ptsd. That same person can then have two more traumatic experiences and not have any ptsd symptoms associated with the events. We do know there are some protective factors and liability factors for developing ptsd, but someone can have all of the known risk factors and none of the protective and not develop ptsd. Conversely someone can have all of the protective factors and none of the risk and they do develop ptsd. It’s an area in psychology that we really don’t know that much about and we should be dedicating a lot more resources to it.
Thank you for saying this! I have 9 disorders and have been seen for years and have seen other people to make sure they can hold up and I very much have them. People can have tons of issues and it doesn't mean they are any less. I was happy to watch this video and learn more as I navigate being denied and fighting for ss. It's bullshit to blame those of us with ptsd. I also have cptsd and hearing that we need to have a growth mindset from this guy pissed me off. There was also prejudice against personality disorders which was horse shit. I get it ss has to prove only tje severe cases otherwise there'd be no support etc I get it yet part of the reason why we have a mental health epidemic is because no one is listening to us and helping. You literally have to be drowning and nearly dead in order to get help and if you dare work then the rug gets ripped out from underneath you. Both you and I are valid and we truly struggle. I hope you can heal and have peace. It sounds like social security needs to change and quit being so ableist. It's not fun having disorders and being told you can cope when you can't control when your brain decides to fight against you.
post traumatic growth disorder, if it was an actual occurring and classifiable disorder, seems like it would be better explained/defined (using a little sarcastic humor) as just a nonfunctional trauma respose and self created coping mechanism using supression and denial to fabricate an alternative more easily negotiated reality of the traumatic event experienced which in turn results in a more socially desirable/acceptable/tolerable outcome & set of actions/emotions in the traumatized individual than those naturally/logically/commonly/typically experienced occurring/evidenced which, oddly enough, are found/listed in the published medical reference manual of psychological conditions & their defining necessary criteria present for a positive/accurate diagnosis of the non-fabricated uncontrollable commonly occurring result/outcome of a traumatic experience which is what the medical community accepts and refers to as PTSD & CPTSD....and he got his PhD in Psychology from what school? And is a practicing clinician with additional education/training in assessment licensed in what state exactly?...🤔🙄
@@heart1caligurl a "post traumatic growth disorder' as he describes it fails to meet the general criteria for a disorder namely "The symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning." He's neither a clinical psychologist (with a PhD in clinical psych) nor a psychiatrist (an MD who does a residency specializing in evaluation and treatment of mental illness). He is an MD with specialization in some field other than psychiatry, probably internal medicine, family practice, or other primary care field. He should have stated this up front, and his failure to do so clearly misled many (most?) people here.
I agree with you. I found myself losing a lot of respect and confidence in Dr. Foster when he started talking like an uniformed anti-vaxxer. My C-PTSD has severely taken my life in a direction of addiction and self harm. I also homicidal thoughts that don’t even feel bad to me. No child is born thinking they want to harm others or themselves… someone or something normalized that depraved behavior… and there is no form of willpower to decide that those horrible things that happened to me “made me stronger.” I think I have to unsubscribe. It’s bringing up all the times clinicians would gas light me, making me doubt my own feelings or memories. Minimizing my pain, “it happened so long ago. It’s time to move on” type of bullshit. In the U.S. it is very difficult to access the experimental treatments like low dose ketamine, TMS, et al, cause a.) MDs would never recommend a treatment with still ongoing research that only shows correlation b.) it is cost prohibitive to most normal ppl with normal incomes. Of course, I am not employed due to my conditions so having Medicaid even makes it less likely that I’d be considered for more that just being put on an SSRI. It’s bullshit.
Watching this, im half inclined to write up a letter about what a day in my life is like so they understand just what the hell i live with. Because on paper they seem to think im in control and perfect, but im not. The only thing keeping me from being actively suicidal is that i have a cat and fiance depending on me. But if you tell that to your therapist, they'll lock you in the psych ward and theres nothing they can do to help when your issues come from the fact that your life sucks and you cant change it.
Miserable but alive. It's hard not to be depressed about being stuck in this situation. Also just tired of being miserable and fighting for every little thing I need in life. Im not in any danger of hurting myself, if that's your concern. It was more about the extent of my hopelessness.
@@pinky-ud1rt I'm finishing up a DBT therapy program and moving on to trauma therapy after that. And I see a CBT therapist. My fiance and I fled for our lives about 15 months ago from my abusive mom and her abusive boyfriend threatening our lives so I know I'm stronger than I think. I have unfortunately had to test that entirely too many times in my lifetime. I'm almost 29 and barely able to handle 1000 steps a day. It's frustrating and everything feels like a battle. In a bit of retrospect I was in a depressive bout when I wrote this, but it's no less true. It's hard to feel like I have a life worth living at times. I try my best when I can.
took me three times tonget approved for disability. third time i lawyered up and won the case. i suffer from ptsd and and major back issues. I got approved because of the PTSD. before going into the coirt room in front of judge someone of the court took me and my lawyer intona room and told us the judge didnt want to put me through the pain agaon of explaining the day that caused my PTSD. judge approved me. long story short i witnessed my 14 year old son tragically die. was a horrific day ………
Know all too well. I just had to go to their interview with two ladies, one was barely out of high school the other was preggo about 35. The girl about 20 talked to me about a half hour then the so called "Dr" asked me about 5 questions then I was done?? I said don't you want to know my background etc etc she said no. One question was "repeat these three things, "ball, cat and house" I think the third was some other word idr, but I only remembered the ball" She probably thought I was faking. So ya my wife took her life in 2016 and my daughter ODd from heroin in 2013 she was 24. I'll get denied, they'll say I can drive, walk and talk so I can work lol. I suffer from anxiety and panic disorder and yes some PTSD and take Xanax 1mg Q. I. D. My late wife was a RN if you can believe that....
alot of mental disorders make you think your lazy such as depression, bipolar, and PTSD, agoraphobia you feel like your lazy and that's why you don't want to leave your house. It's so important to understand your illness.
However people DO suffer more than three (3) mental disorders. Unfortunately I’m married to someone who does, so I have first hand experience, and this is not my opinion, but as indicated by the DSM-5 AND diagnosed by mental heath physicians.
I suffer from severe mental illness and based on the criteria laid out I should qualify, but those last four questions you said you ask… is it really necessary that I be arrested, admitted, or have had an addiction to drugs or alcohol to prove it? My primary issue are frequent, debilitating panic/anxiety attacks which completely shut me down and are easily triggered as a stress response. Rationally I understand what’s happening to me and I have coping skills to get me through them wihout self har,… the problem is is I need a quiet, calm, solitary place for 30 to 60 minutes to deal with the low intensity attacks. If I have a full blown “I’m going to die because I can’t breathe but I also WANT to die to end this suffering” it’s going to take a lot longer to get through.
I totally understand I also suffer from these frequent debilitating anxiety/panic attacks disorder along with depression. I was diagnosed in 2007 with chronic anxiety/panic attack disorder. I’ve had to take pills since I tried to get off them because later in life they can cause other health problems and conditions I did ok for about 6 months and had to go back on them. My doctor told me that my condition comes from a chemical imbalance in the brain. Stress, caffeine and not enough sleep can trigger the symptoms and attacks. I’ve cut out caffeine a little bit after I was diagnosed it helped fair amount but it Seems that my condition is getting worse lately and is so frustrating on the bad days the attacks cause me uncontrollably crying, panic attacks that feel like I’m having a heart attack and when I finally get it to stop and controlled I’m extremely exhausted and need to sleep for a few hours the exhaustion can go into the next day as well just a wiped out week exhaustion like I need to sleep more than normal. It’s frustrating as I don’t understand why this is happening to me or what is causing it….
Thank you for this video, which has opened you to criticism. It took my son who is bipolar over 4 years to get approved. He and his wife were seperated the day of the hearing and told their spouse had admitted he worked during that period to disqualify him, which wasnt true. My husband and I exhausted our savings during that time making sure they had what they needed,causing many sleepless nights and stress related problems for us. Many who need it are rejected, but at least its available to some.
this is what I have done for the past 3 years, and I did get an attorney, my son has had to take Depakote when he was 17/18 yrs. old he goes to a job and can't stay in the building, he has major problems and I have been keeping him up and living with him with no medication because I can't afford it and I can't get any help! Please pray for some peace and some answers! My son is now 38 and it's been a ruff 20 years but we are still trying!
@@booadam3 This is so unfair and cruel. I am in UK our Government plans to have the sick work from home. I don’t know where all the jobs are going to come from since the government has sold off all of our assets we have nothing in the UK. It’s seems that only the rich are entitled to a life and a hope for the future. It’s an ill divided world.
@@user-Tortured-soul Not that the US is any better but I've watched with horror the disintegration of the safety net in the UK in the last years. Your question about where jobs are going to come from is accurate. Not only that but what about people who sleep rough or have homes that are either not up to code or can't pay for heat? And what about children with mental health problems, are they supposed to "work from home"? It's an insane scheme (pun intended). One thing that has given me some hope for having the funds to help people is watching Gary Stevenson on YT. He talks about income inequality though not in partisan terms. It's about fairness which seems to be pretty hard to come up with in our times. Greed rules the day and so many parts of society lose out. I believe that pressure starting at a local level is about the only way to go, like people here who push and push for their loved ones to get some help, disability. Sorry to go on. . . Take care.
I know exactly how you are feeling, my son is 41 and has lived with me for 6 years, he was homeless in another state so I took him in to try and help him but that hasn't worked out to well for me. I can't get any help for him, drs, meds or income. I'm 65 and get my SS, I also have anxiety and really hate going out just to get groceries, nowhere else if I can help it he is so unpredictable I never know what's going to set him off and that makes me extra nervous and panicking when we do go to the store, other than that we stay home. I stay in my bedroom most of the time avoiding him because he talks and hollers to himself most of the time or he gets confrontational and that stresses me bad . I love him but I don't know how much longer I can cope I thought I could get him some help sooner and I'm beginning to wonder about myself if I've helped him or have I hurt him by taking him in these past 6 years it has really taking a toll on my heath for sure, sorry for letting all of that out this is just the first time I have ever expressed myself about this. I don't have family or friends around here because I moved here to take care of my mom 8 years ago and she passed in 2018 and I just don't know anyone here , that's when my anxiety started getting really bad when I lost her. If he doesn't get help soon before I'm gone I just don't know what will happen to him, it's really sad that I can't get help to at least get him medical attention because he needs it but they'll let someone like him get in trouble and call the cops and put him in jail instead getting him medical attention. @booadam3
It really does. But, the current most effective treatment for ADHD is a stimulant, which is partially effective... but doesn't last long. We need more effective treatments for ADHD.
I got disability 6 years ago for bipolar 1(age 27). I had been in the psych ward at that time about 15 times(now it's over 30), and attempted suicide several times. I had a long term psychiatrist and therapist who were able to provide paperwork displaying my complete disability. I had a lawyer as well. It took only 6 months with no judge hearing or meeting with their therapist. I feel very fortunate. I hear a lot of stories of people having to wait years. Being on disability... sucks. I don't feel I am a contributing member of society, but like you mentioned, it's hard to keep a job when you are hospitalized every 6 months.
Oh, I was even able to get my college loans dismissed with the Total and Permanent Disability Discharge program, and my private loans dismissed when I told them I was undergoing ECT treatments, lol.
Sorry to hear about your problems. Yes, I have seen a patient with similar issues - bipolar 1, over 20 admissions in 15 years, multiple suicide attempts. That's severe mental illness by any standards. The thing is, generally Social Security will only approve mental health claims if the problems are severe: www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/12.00-MentalDisorders-Adult.htm#12_04 And, like you, disabled people often feel guilty about not working and contributing. I tell them - you didn't choose to be disabled, it happened to you. If you could work, you would.
I would say that you are a contributing member of society though not by working at a paid job. Every day you do your best to take good care of yourself in a very difficult situation and that says something good about you. One good thing about disability is that, at least in theory, you have time to focus on taking care of yourself. Being able to see yourself as fortunate shows your compassion and is a feather in your cap. Taking care of yourself, compassion for others are truly important ways of contributing.
If someone has been a long time user of alcohol and/or tobacco that the public has been warned about for decades I wonder how that will be judged. Society in general seems to be moving toward less empathy.
Once again, I agree with everything Dr Foster says in this video. He pretty well summarizes my job! I've been doing mental health evaluations for my state Department of Disability Determinations on claimants applying for SSI/SSDI for a little more than 30 years. I recommend to my friends who have family members applying for SS disability that they watch Dr Foster's channel here-- It's great to have all this good information available--
Really? You agree with EVERYTHING he says in this video? The second half is factual and accurate, very useful to people applying for social security disability benefits for mental health reasons. I have no problems with it. But his first half is out of date, full of factual misstatements, ignores research data in favor of anecdotes, draws dubious conclusions from information filtered though patients, and fails to recognize current controversies and issues in the field directly pertinent to his statements (most notably major problems with DSM diagnostics being based on overlapping symptom clusters with no connection, and likely no capacity to ever be connected, to underlying pathology); all in a way that is predictably antagonistic to many he seeks to educate. Granted I've only got 25 years of experience as a board certified psychiatrist who has done SSI/SSDI disability evaluations, but the first half of this video does not match the quality of videos in which he speaks within his scope of practice. It's essentially editorializing about topics outside his area of expertise where he does not appear to have extended effort to learn very much but nevertheless feels capable of judging both patients and their clinicians. This video would be vastly improved by cutting it in half and throwing away the first part, bringing it to a quality level consistent with his other videos.
Thanks for admitting that you are part of the "22 veterans a day" problem. How many veterans have you examined and determined that they can just go fucking deploy again? I bet you said "thank you for your service" while you were laughing at them for being homeless, suicidal and addicted to substances.
@@michaelclark4876 Thank you for sharing your expert opinion. As a lay person who has pychiatric diagnoses starting from the age of 19 and I am now 45, I have been witness to the changing data on certain conditions, and found that about 50% of my clinicians over the past 25yrs of treatment, do not keep up with the science. I do, so I can advocate for myself, not be spoken down to, and take part in my treatment of care. I have been diagnosed with all the mental health conditions Dr. Forster listed with condescension and dismissiveness. It has taken a lot of persistence from myself to get MDs to listen to me. I finally have a psychiatrist who doesn’t try to gaslight me when I tell them that just because I don’t have flashbacks of my childhood trauma, they then disqualify me for having any type of stress disorder since the DSM is so behind with understanding of trauma and adverse childhood events! I started therapy before the ACE checklist existed; there was no vocabulary that explained the effects of ACEs, addiction, neurosis and mood disorders- yes, I’m dual diagnosis, and yes, I have a recent ADHD diagnosis, and Bi-Polar II added to a recent evaluation after 2 years of CBT with this behaviioral group. Also recently, it was added to my record that I possess Cluster B traits. Twenty five years ago I was told that I’m depressed and that my insomnia will resolve itself with Zaleplon, then Ambien, then Trazadone, etc, etc. My depression and GAD in 1999 was treated with Benzos and Serzone-- both of which have fallen out of favor due to their risk of dependence and SSRIs becoming so chic. My ADHD fixation has made my comment longer than I intended it to be. Thanks again for being a dissenting voice to Dr. Foster’s views.
He's not a psychiatrist and it shows. He should have stated so and made clear he doesn't do evaluations for mental health related disability. His editorializing about number of diagnoses reflects a deep ignorance of how the current diagnostic system (flawed as it is) promotes multiple diagnoses and how much of a controversy this is in the field. A person with major depression who is like the 40-90% who also meet criteria for generalized anxiety disorder has 2. And if that person also has drunk and intermittently used cocaine problematically (a not uncommon occurrence) will rack up at least 4 diagnoses under DSM-V. If they smoke too it's 5. If they were diagnosed dyslexic in school as well, now you have 6. All while formally following recommended DSM-V diagnostic methods.
"I heard on the radio about a female soldier who was shot out of the sky and then got captured, tortured and raped that it made her stronger". Since this anecdote is definitely true, she clearly got denied for SSDI because she can totally go back to her old job and deploy again. She just needs a quick "thanks for your service". She can clearly suck it up and drive on. She just has Post Traumatic Growth Disorder. This is why we have 22 suicides a day and so many of us are homeless.
@@michaelclark4876Nobody that's addicted to drugs, or booze is disabled! They can stop and I'm not talking smack (ptp) my daughter OD'd from heroin in 2013 age 24 and wife took her life in 2016 and believe it or not was a RN. I just went to their "doctor's, one was a kid maybe 20 just out of high school she looked the other was about 35ish, this was the doctor and barley asked me five questions. The kid talked to me about half hour. I have anxiety and panic disorder and PTSD I'm 58. I'll get denied they'll say I can drive a car, walk and talk I can work
I’m very curious about the Autism, the diagnosis scale is so broad now. My son turned 18 and he got bumped off his disability. I appealed and have a phone interview coming up. I’ve never done this before and I feel overwhelmed. He’s 19 and a Senior. He can’t drive, has zero friends, Impaired speech and trouble with his emotions when he has them. He’s, well, odd and different. Like a kid still. He has an imaginary girlfriend that’s a cartoon character. She talks to him. It scars me! He sees a therapist every two weeks. If something happened to me I’m so scared of what would happen to him. He’s easily manipulated. It’s such a grey area to deal with
Autism, along with bipolar illness and PTSD are current fad diagnoses, and are WAY overdiagnosed. For your son: if he is being treated/seeing a therapist, their records are crucial. If he is not seeing someone, ask Social Security to arrange for a psychological evaluation. Severe autism does qualify for disability. Link to Social Security's Listing of Impairments. Go to #8 - "Autism Spectrum Disorders" www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/12.00-MentalDisorders-Adult.htm
Perfect example of someone who doesn't truly understand. I'd like see you get your nose out of a book and be stuck in my head for one week. You absolutely contradicted yourself. Labeled my multiple dx basically bs, yet I fail at all of the four groups now. I couldn't even answer some of the judges questions after they asked multiple times. Couldn't comprehend it. The judge had to ask my lawyer to try to reword it a different way for me so I understood. I don't think I got it still. I felt like they just moved on. I was approved fyi. Incompetent? You just made me feel awful about myself. Laziness?? Are people truly just lazy? Or is there an underlying condition that is impeding their ability to function like the others they see? Do you think that doesn't trigger anxiety, feelings of worthlessness, and depression? You need to spend some time with people that struggle. Contact NAMI and do some hands on, interactive research before you judge. Yes, you did that. How is someone so uneducated to the reality of these conditions going to be able to truly advocate for them?? Any idea how long it took my therapist to help me not feel the way you just did?
One thing is for certain, this guy is not a psychiatrist. If he was, he would be aware that neurosis as a diagnosis hasn't been used for about 40+ years. Much longer than 'organic' has been out of favor. He would also be aware that one reason for people carrying multiple diagnoses is that the current diagnostic system promotes them. It is quite possible for someone to meet criteria for more than one condition. Indeed, close to half of all people meeting criteria for one disorder will meet criteria for one or more other disorders in any given year. Certain diagnoses are commonly found with each other: major depression and generalized anxiety disorder are 40-90% comorbid. Cormorbidity is also associated with worse outcomes, with predictable results for prevalence in people seeking disability benefits. There is considerable debate in the profession about the degree to which comorbidity is reflective of something genuine about mental illness versus being an artifact of the diagnostic system (I freely admit to generally favoring the later). The issues with the current DSM system are severe enough that the National Institutes of Mental Health doesn't use it and has started an initiative to lay the foundations for a new system with their Research Domain Criteria. Another reason for multiple diagnoses is that people may accumulate diagnoses over the course of their illness based on how they look at one point in time. Without realizing that later diagnoses may supersede older ones. This is exacerbated by people of limited training using DSM criteria as simple checkboxes and making diagnoses on this alone. In my experience, many such people have severe personality disorders, the existence of which often seem to go unconsidered except when inappropriately used to pejoratively label certain patients. Regardless, when asked about diagnosis on social security forms, every mental heath diagnosis someone was ever given may be listed. Such a list does not reflect all of these being diagnosed at once any more than a problem list on an EMR listing every diagnosis a person has ever received means they have all of these problems right now. Let alone that the treating clinician is incompetent. This also happens when patients, as often happens, don't fully understand their own diagnoses and a clinician is taking their statements as though they are clinician statements and actual current diagnoses. The example of someone saying they have "depression and bipolar" is a classic one. They were likely given the depression diagnosis when depressed and the bipolar diagnosis when manic or hypomanic and failed to understand the depression was part of the bipolar disorder. I hear 'depression and bipolar' all the time from patients but I have never seen even a vaguely qualified mental health professional diagnose a bipolar disorder and a separate depressive disorder at the same time. The fault in this misunderstanding is vastly more likely to rest with Dr. Foster assuming a patient's statement about their diagnosis accurately reflects a real diagnosis, something every physician should be aware is not always the case. And FYI: although depression is typical in bipolar disorder, the illness is defined by manic or hypomanic episodes. Depression is not necessary. A single manic episode without any depressive episodes will earn you a Bipolar I diagnosis. Another thing he would know if he were a psychiatrist. Fads absolutely are an issue in psychiatry. They arise more easily than in some areas of medicine (though fads exist throughout health care) because we still have to rely on the clinical interview and there are still no objective tests for any psychiatric condition. They tend to happen due to certain common factors. These include loosening of criteria (example: accepting trauma that does not meet criteria A severity of "death, threatened death, actual or threatened serious injury, or actual or threatened sexual violence" for PTSD), conflation of lay terms with actual symptoms ('mood swings' for mania), misunderstanding of terms ('racing thoughts' that are worries or rumination for flight of ideas), the fact that like many medical illnesses there is a continuous gradient from the normal range into pathology, combined with a failure of many people to apply a criteria which is always present "The symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning." (FYI: this is why there is no such thing as 'post traumatic growth disorder'. Shrink protip: when complaining about fad diagnoses, don't bring in a fake diagnosis to justify your view). All of these can result in overdiagnosis. Ironically, one of the 'fad' diagnoses he listed, ADHD has been found to be both over and under diagnosed. At least back closer to 2000, the majority of people diagnosed with it didn't have it AND most of the people who had it were not diagnosed. I should also note that while many people do grow after trauma, this trauma tends to be less severe than that meeting criteria A for PTSD. It is also true that most people exposed to trauma meeting criteria A for PTSD don't develop PTSD symptoms. Why this is the case is an area of active investigation. Of those who do develop symptoms, most see a substantial decrease or remission within 12 months. A substantial minority do not, and these people tend to have symptoms for years or decades. Overall there is a rule of thirds for those developing symptoms, one third will remit, one third will moderately improve, one third will remain refractory. The fact 2/3rds get better doesn't mean the condition doesn't exist or can't be disabling. Fads increase the number of people claiming a diagnosis, they don't decrease the number of people who actually have the condition. All of these issues are why social security disability evaluations are done by psychiatrists and clinical psychologists, who are trained to diagnose mental illnesses and not clinicians without such training such as Dr. Foster. Speaking as a psychiatrist who has done social security evaluations, I think this video would be greatly improved in utility and accuracy by cutting off the editorializing first half and leaving the factual second half.
I have been on disability 23 years now. Unlike everybody else, i put no effort into applying. An advocate did it all for me and there was no contesting, no argument BOOM i started getting checks. I still don't really know what SS has as my illness i just know how hard it is to receive payments. I kinda didn't want to know. I don't think it would help for me to belive whatever my diagnosis was so they never told me but now i'm curious. Can i find out? I mean it's been a long time and i'm almost 65 anyway so they probably won't kick me off .... you'd think. I know from being down south now, a lot of people fake it cuz they don't want to work. WEll who does? xoxoxo
Wouldn’t some disorders belong to more than one of the six groups though? For instance I have Bipolar I disorder and I have psychosis symptoms in both my manic and depressive episodes. Also, you can have Bipolar without depression. You only need to have a manic episode for Bipolar I. If I had to guess part of the reason why it’s harder to get psychiatric illness approved for disability is because (often unlike physical illness) there are no objective/empirical evidence for the symptoms. Anyone can say they were depressed, or were manic, or were hearing voices. If I had to guess a history of involuntary hospitalizations makes the case easier?
His groups do not reflect current diagnostic groupings. He's not a psychiatrist, is speaking outside his medical expertise and pretty much everything in the first half of the video is better off ignored. The second half where he talks about how social security evaluates disability for mental illnesses is accurate however.
I am diagnosed with Narcolepsy and HPPD and have been trying different medications and therapies for at least five years and have had no lasting improvements and haven't been able to stay at one job for more than 7 months since I graduated from college due to the complications. My family members have suggested that I apply for disability, but I (being mentally unwell in general) struggle to take those steps for myself if I feel they will be fruitless. Do you think I should try to apply?
If your retired and have mental issues anxiety depression ptsd, can you be eligible for ssdi ? I have panic attacks so bad I can’t even hold a partime job for a month. Depression and manic highs
I have ADHD DEPRESSING OCD FIBROMALGIA..AND I HATE BEING AROUND LOT OF PEOPLE I HAVE ANXIETY I SHOUT AT PEOPLE I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE STARE AT ME..I HIT MYSELF AND TALK TO MYSELF...I HEAR VOICES PARANOLD SO THERES ALOT FOR ME....I GET DISABILTY
What Social Security calls "Psychological Assessments". They're done in person by clinical psychologist, who conduct a diagnositic interview with the patient taking 30 - 60 minutes. I don't do detailed a detailed psychiatric assessment on patients I see for exams because there isn't enough time, but if they show obvious signs of serious mental illness I put that in my report.
@@DisabilityExams last time I had to go to a mental exam the psychologist did a SLURS test (I think that’s the name of it) I was just wondering if maybe there is a standard test that all psychologists use during the exams or if they choose random tests? Since there are so many different tests that can be used to test for the same things like ptsd, or bipolar , panic disorder and so on . How do they determine what type of test to use to evaluate someone when they haven’t even met the person?
My relative was in a psych hospital 17 times for psychosis. With schizoaffective disorder. 17 times ! Even taken with police and put in straight jacket in hospital. She recently told me she knew how to get out of a straight jacket in the hospital in the past. Yep they denied her Disability. Thankfully she is over 62 now. Almost old enough to also get medicare. 65 soon
Really? The last time I saw a straight jacket in a hospital was in 1980 - and it was an antique. I haven't heard of anyone using a straight jacket since then.
@DisabilityExams Yes it was in possibly 1989 In Florida possibly the 1990s. She thankfully has been in " remission" with Zyprexa since 2011 I believe, so it's been 13 years without a psychotic break. Through prayer and petition also her being on thyroid meds which If your thyroid is off you can get psychotic symptoms. So between levothyroxine and Zyprexa she had been good. She is still a tiny paranoid at times but its mild compared to an actual "breakdown". She applied for disability I believe in the 2010s timeframe, likely after her last psychotic break.
My son has autism and is in the process of applying for ss he is currently 15 1/2 yrs of age and lives with his mother she is trying to see if he qualifies for ss by time he is 18 yrs of age. i currently provide child support for him on a monthly basis. i know that there are 3 levels of autism to me he seems like a level 2 as he still need help with common thing and in no way will he every drive as he cannot handle the stress or the complexity he is verbal but not fluidly he sometimes has a meltdown at school or at his mother he is and has been on Risperdal which helps a lot he is very smart and does well in school. and most of the time is well behaved. still very socially awkward. and hyper focuses on trivial things like numbers and letters etc. im just wondering as his father if he has a chance to qualify as i don't see him even living alone or holding some type of financially supportive job. just by the nature of his autism. and yes he has a diagnosis of autism by his doctor and is in special education and has been in elementary and jr high. any insight on this appreciated thanks
Hello Sir. I am no expert on here but your son sounds just like my son which is also on the spectrum. He will be 17 in a couple of months. He was also diagnosed with Bipolar and ADHD. SSA denied him because my wife had been making too much money at her job and no parent was on disability? I hope this helps and I wish you all nothing but the best. God bless! 🙏🏼
It sounds to me like your son would qualify for SSI now, unless his mother has too much income or is not impoverished. In that case he would not qualify for administrative reasons even though clinically he would qualify. It appears from what you have said that he would qualify when he reaches age 18. Good luck!!
@@williamrigby1867 thank you for your comment he has an appointment with ssi in a few weeks as for his mothers financial situation I’m not sure what it is she works at dollar general so I don’t think it’s much. She does live in a double wide trailer home that’s paid for be me when we were married that I left to here when we divorced in 2013. Mainly so my son would have a place to live with his mother. He is now in the process. I encouraged his mother to start early as I know it generally takes some time. I greatly appreciate the information thank you
I watched all your videos, and then went to my disability exam. To my shock and unfortunately to my dismay, the doctor never even looked at me never really talk to me, I never ask any of the questions that you say get asked, he came around and poked me in my side, and then asked me if it hurt. And that was it, so I think it’s probably safe to say he didn’t give a actual shit about me one way or the other
Yeah gotta love the 3 or more and incompetent Dr...... I am on disability and originally had no idea what specific diagnosis was it, as major depressive order did not fit the bill. I have a BPD as it turns out. Which afterwards yeah I see, but it took years of living with it and making other's lives hell. But along with that I am Autistic and have sever PTSD brought on from growing up in a home with no real empathy nor compassion. So there is three for sure and co-morbidity is a real thing as well. And the process of getting disability was behind the scenes for me. Forget the organization that is in each state (same one), that provides legal help. Not for free, they take a 1/3 cut of your disability allotment check for the 1st go (if you were not familiar with the process, the date you are declared disabled (which is not when you apply, nor when you first start to see the problems, but somewhere in between, cause it is not diagnosis either, but you get a disbursement equal to back to the date of disability. Which for me was one year and received a lump sum then the monthly disbursements)). But they were the ones I am sure that got it, as the company disability insurance was tired of paying out, and the process for me was fast, way fast. But I was also at a treatment facility when that ball got rolling. Never talked to a SSA Dr. The one conversation I had with the SSA was "you need to be here in 1 month for an interview" me: "not possible, I am at a facility and not able to leave".... that went back and forth a bit. Said he would get back, 3 weeks later approved. And how bad a BPD..... you do not want to know.
Doctor - I’m very interning hearing your opinions on brain scans that reflect the change in firings with some of the things you’ve mentioned. And did I hear your definition of mental health wrong at the beginning? It sounded like you said faked?
Work burns me out so bad I am suicidal every day, but that didn't help my case. I got denied. Since then, in addition to depression, anxiety, and ocd, I have been diagnosed with autism. But I have six years of working full time (with some time on short term disability) I doubt they would approve me even though my medical providers think I should apply.
Hey, I would like to challenge a belief you stated in this video. It’s not out of anger by the way. I’m going to use myself as an example. The thing I take issue with is your belief that having more than three mental health diagnoses suggests an overzealous counselor or dr. I implore you to look into comorbidities. I am diagnosed with inattentive type ADHD where it makes focus a challenge. It’s paralyzing beyond the point of procrastination or not wanting to complete tasks and having extreme difficulty in doing so. Please research adhd. It isn’t a candy coated diagnosis. It may be commonly diagnosed because of how strongly it is tied to a persons body being unable to produce and regulate dopamine. It is a real chemical imbalance and not everyone receives benefit from medications available. Psych meds, as you know, only help 50% of people who take or try to take them. Ok, next one, I have major depressive disorder and I am treatment resistant. Just having that diagnosis should tell a disability examiner this affects every aspect of life. This isn’t just depression. It’s the most intense all pervasive version that does not go away with talk therapy alone. Your body does not make or process serotonin normally. You need both psych meds that actually work on you to produce the chemical and lifelong therapy. If I were one of the lucky ones that medications help and I saw improvement, it would not be improved to such an extent that I am ever normal or at a regular level of functioning. Next, I have agoraphobia with panic disorder. I barely leave my home because I am in a constant flight and fear state. Exposure therapy only does so much. If a person has a fear of heights, you might be able to get them on an elevator to the top floor and stand next to a railing on the 200th floor but that fear never leaves. Your body reacts. You would have such bad vertigo and unpleasant anxiety every single time it just ends up reinforcing the fear instead of growing from it. Some things cannot be forced or fixed to a regular level and it’s really important that’s recognized. Panic disorder is basically your body preventing you from progressing. It’s the same repeated negative reinforcement every single time a person has a panic attack. When I have a panic attack it’s not a 15 minute ordeal. It’s one to two hours of being unable to stop replaying what caused it, and having those attacks repeat until you are so depleted you have to completely shut off and sleep a few hours with medication that lessons racing repetitive thoughts. I’m diagnosed with social anxiety disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. These are two completely different things where anxiety dictates your life. Social anxiety is anything public around people causing an inability to function normally. You can’t be around anyone comfortably. Your insides are acid and you find zero enjoyment in social situations. GAD is when you are home without any reason to be in worry or fear but you find yourself sitting sweating worrying with no trigger. Next I have a documented sleep disorder that gets worse with stress. I’ve done sleep studies, worn a watch for a week, gone to a sleep dr and there is really no help when it’s psychosomatic aka it happens because of worry over not being able to sleep. Some days I get two hours of sleep. You can’t function at any job that sleep deprived or learn new information and retain it without constant mistakes being made on the job. The help I’ve gotten from said dr was to be told not to look at my cell phone before bed and to avoid light. That is no help. Next, I have a migraine specialist and I’m sick at least five days a month in bed vomiting. Migraines get so intense it’s like having the flu. You can’t be in a room with any light or noise, you can’t eat, you can’t even sit upright in a chair and there’s no warning one is coming on with my type. There is not an employer on earth who is going to be ok with 5 random absences a month on that one single condition alone. I was also diagnosed with a personality disorder and it’s called avoidant personality disorder. I strongly urge you to read about personality disorders because we are completely aware of how irrational they are, we know something is wrong with us not other people. We crave relationships but we are prevented from having many or any because this disease makes anything social practically unbearable. It feels like climbing a mountain to reply back with a two sentence text. You’re so lonely it is soul wrenching but the discomfort kills progress and desire. You find joy in nothing. You hate yourself. It gets worse as you age and there is no cure. You can be given coping strategies but none of it really helps you. I’ve done years of cognitive behavioral therapy with different therapists on and off for 30 years and it barely makes anything better. I have had agreement by several different drs at different facilities that all agree on me having every single one of these diagnoses. It is actually very common for people to have many clusters of different mental disorders that bounce off of and feed each other. I don’t know how to make someone, a stranger, understand how debilitating and life destroying all of these are by themselves but when you combine all of this, you’re just existing in a hell that you know no matter what you try, you will never be normal. People like me should not be expected to work when it is impossible for them to. I have letters from my counselor, my psychiatrist, my primary dr, and my migraine specialist all saying everything I have is severe and makes activities of daily living and employment a non starter. I applied for SSDI and it’s been over two years for me to even be given an adjudicator for reconsideration. My work credits run out September of 2025. I have a ce mental exam on the 27th. If I can’t get a stranger to realize how badly I need this and how qualified I am for being granted disability and they deny it, by the time I get assigned an appointment to appeal and go in front of a judge, I will no longer qualify because of all of the time I’ve spent waiting with how behind disability is. If I can’t convince you I probably can’t convince them. So my question at the end of all of this explanation and suggestions is, have I convinced you? If I haven’t what do I need to share to get you to take me seriously? I could use the advice if you’re willing.
You are not alone. And you put anxiety on a platter. I've been seeing Drs for 25+ years, since I was 14 for anxiety. I actually faint. I can't go to the grocery store without putting it off until there's nothing in the cupboards at all and even then I'm dizzy the whole time and rushing and forget to get the things I actually needed. I have suffered with Borderline since around 14 and ADHD since as long as I can remember, neither of those were properly diagnosed until 2016. They jumped to depression even though I don't hit a single marker for it, put me on literally every antidepressant from every class over three years and it did nothing but make me feel suicidal and even more agitated. My ADHD is so debilitating that even taking a shower is so overwhelming, but I have to do it and usually cry from the stress of it. I hate people. I have never had friends, I don't speak to any of my family, i have no desire for any form or social interaction. Best of luck to us both ❤
Hey lady, thank you for sharing some of your story. My mental health went to hell at age 14 too. No one understands what it’s like surviving like this unless you have it. It’s not living.
Hello. I attended a CE exam 6 weeks ago for autism/depression. 3 weeks after that I received another letter to attend a second CE for the same impairment. I was told that a CE was a one time meeting. They were different doctors and both were very nice. Is it normal to have two mental health CE exams in six weeks for the same impairment? Thank you for your videos.
No, it's not normal. However, every so often Social Security schedules folks for exams that don't really make sense to me - I had one person who was applying for their child, and they scheduled them twice with me in two months - and nothing had changed. I always recommend going along with the exams, because if you don't go, it can stop your disability application progressing.
If you are exceeding what Social Security calls "Substantially Gainful Activity", which is earning over $1,550 per month, you will not be approved. If you are earning under that you can be approved.
I agree that some things like PTSD and Bipolar are over diagnosed, and I don't know if people are really getting doctors to sign off on these, or they're lying about it. But it annoys me a lot. I'll skip the absurd details and events leading up to it, but I was diagnosed with Bipolar 2 in my early twenties. After my second hospital stay around twenty six years old it was changed to Bipolar 1. Before getting SSDI I was working a new job after every manic episode because episodes involved things like distrust, delusions, reckless behavior, etc. So I would meet a whole new gang of people to work with one or two times each year. During those jobs I had dozens of people tell me they were Bipolar. I wasn't telling them I was OR asking them if they were. They would just tell me they're Bipolar like it was a cool interesting personality trait. Which always threw me off since I kept my diagnosis a secret cause it's embarrassing. Every time someone told me they were Bipolar I would ask questions about what kind of symptoms they get when they're manic or depressed, or how often episodes happen for them. They would just say things like "Oh, I can get mad really fast and I'll just snap at people" and overtime I realized a lot of these people were self diagnosing themselves with Bipolar disorder and using it as an excuse to be rude to others. When I'd ask them questions like "when was your last manic episode?" I'd get insane answers like "Oh, yesterday I had a bad one" or "I had one this morning". The more questions I asked the more obvious it was that they didn't even know what Bipolar disorder was. It honestly pisses me off because if those people understood how much it can ruin some people's lives, jobs, friendships, family, future plans.. like if they understood how destructive this is and how hopeless it be when you can line up all your stupid ducks in a row and work so hard to mend friendships and repair bridges and go start a new jobs, just to watch it all burn down again and again and again, maybe they wouldn't wear it on like a cheap Halloween costume. And the more I deal with this the more I fckin HATE people who walk around using things like Bipolar and PTSD type labels in their Twitter or Instagram bios cause they think it's something that makes them interesting or get's them sympathy. While people who really have these disorders are fighting everyday to not give up and quit, there's herds of clowns out here pretending to have mental illnesses because it grows more trendy every time a mentally ill celebrity offs themselves. I don't know why I just typed all this down on a random youtube video, I don't know why I do anything. Anyways, thanks for the information. Insightful video with lots of information.
You are correct, bipolar illness, especially bipolar 1 is a very serious psychological condition, as bad as schizophrenia for some, but every moody person (most of who are either normal, or have a personality disorder) is diagnosed with bipolar illness these days. I'm going to do a video on psychological disorders that are grossly overdiagnosed today, and those that are grossly underdiagnosed.
6yrs military 14 Law Enforcement. PTSD MDD with psychotic features panic disorder anxiety disorder psychosis an OCD makes my life hell everyday but I guess the doctor is just a bad doctor cuz I have more than three diagnosis.
I'm sure you been through some harsh times and seen a lot of mind bending stuff. Is hard to find doctors that take their time to fully grasp what's going on, some can be very condescending and in a rush, which probably is a waste of time, then their are excellent doctors who genuinely try to get an understanding, take their time and are empathetic, these doctors end up leaving big affiliated hospitals and start their own practice and you have to wait a while to be seen because everybody wants that doctor. Also so difficult to find a good therapist. Especially if your on Medicaid, the state pays therapist a lot less money than a therapist who gets paid by say Blue Cross Blue shield or any of the bigger name companies. Thank you for your service, and I hope you find someone who can help.
Sir you are giving disingenuous info. The young lady you described about war may not have chronic post traumatic stress disorder but I guarantee you she worked through that trauma with therapists and medications. And now is living her life and is successful. But to say she just dealt with it or got over it is silly. .I am the only survivor of a serial killer rapist and was punched in the head repeatedly with brass knuckles and I too am and was highly functioning. Of course I had to work through the trauma and I have a traumatic brain injury. I didn't go on disability until 2 years ago. I am a former trauma nurse but retired and went on disability 2 years ago at age 55. I am not struggling with my attack that occurred when I was 24 however, organization and time management along with serious attention problems drove me from the work force. Every case is different. The hope is that people will continue to seek treatment and management of their challenges physical or mental and not end up living on the street somewhere. Improving quality of life safety shelter and finding some worthwhile cause to find joy in their difficulties as all of us as humans strive to do b
The definitions of something like bipolar disorder change every 10 years the definitions of borderline personality or the symptoms of it change every 10 years
Drug addics OD before they can stop using drugs, this disease affects their emotional, social status, mental, financial, spiritual health, and their families, but they are not qualify for benefits? This issue should be extremely important to the SSA office.
It sucks but I think SS looks at it just like a disease--you can't be sick and then not try to get treatment for it. Any treatment for drug/alcohol addiction will automatically include stopping using the substance and/or getting on other meds prescribed by a doctor
"In the personality disorders, the patient's behavior causes problems with others, but the patient feels they're just fine, there's nothing wrong with them, the problem is with everyone else." This is the most outrageous generalization of personality disorders I've ever heard. I have borderline personality disorder and trust me, I don't feel just fine, I feel like everything is wrong with me, and that I'm to blame for a failed life. Channel abandoned.
The problem is about disruption in the workplace. If somebody has mental illness (schizophrenia or Bipolar II) it stops productivity and causes drama and this is what makes the person unemployable because they get fired immediately.
@@burghlerHave the more severe bipolar 1 and was employee of the month and outworked them all. Without medication. It is how people act around me. I am happy when around happy people and vice versa.
Learning disabilities, bipolar and schizophrenia, paranoid doesn't help life. I've been on ssi for yrs along with unknown disease of the spine, life sucks but I try to make the best of it.
Bipolar 1 and 2 have equal depression. Bipolar 1 has mania, bipolar 2 hypomania, which is less severe. However both have about the same high risk of addiction and suicide, so neither is trivial.
I was on disability for anxiety and panic disorder the key is a long history of treatment. My treatment went back to the late 90s. Seeing a psychiatrist 3 times then applying for ssdi will be denied.
What if you attempted Suicide Several times and Was Hospitalized for up 6 weeks and sometimes less Now I have Had Problems remembering people who I have been Friends with and Remember Names Numbers, if I have taken my meds because I feel sometimes I or sometimes I didn’t I have been diagnosed with reacuring Depression Since 1970s
That may very well qualify for Social Security Disability. I'm going to be making the second part video on neurosis, including anxiety and depression this week - I think you will find it helpful.
The system is a failure..it is rigged that no matter what short of having a couple months to live..will you be successful in winning your disability claim unless you are 50 years old with limited education and only have had hard labor jobs . Now if you are 50 or older with easier jobs or clerical type positions..well let's just put it this way..as long as you can pass out a ticket or write down a phone number you will never get it because every job in the national economy has to be ruled out whether they exist or not so basically if the job can be thought up it exists. I am simply stating facts that everyone that has went through the process knows to be 💯 percent correct. And I have never in my life nor will I ever believe in the idea that if you have an ongoing condition and or conditions and have regular Dr's that you see with mris and documentation of impairments that by seeing an independent medical examiner is going to know more about you in 12 minutes of asking you to do a few lame steps that they have more say so than your Dr's. That my friends is just absolutely ridiculous and do you really think someone that is paid by the government solely to discredit you that they are actually going to help you....please.
You need to appreciate others' going out there way to give FREE knowledge to some that CAN'T explain how they are feeling as you can't.... as I see in your comment.
Ok...watch a truck explode knowing your Grandma was still inside when you're 10 years old, never receive mental health help for it because Mom tells you you're "not allowed to be so upset because it was HER parents, not mine" and tell me how I'm supposed to GROW!! I see that image EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE. But yea, I'm ok
Well, your antiquated view of personality disorders is exactly that, antiquated. Those disorders are forged in time, as the personality develops. It's not something that occurs in early childhood, and has NO genetic components to it. Manifestations of personality disorder start to appear in late adolescence / early adulthood, and not before. What tweaks your personality is mostly environmental, or social: neglected kids will become narcissistic, for example, to make up for the lack of attention. Personality disorders cannot be properly controlled by medication, either, because you see, it's our personality. It's extreme and hinders everyday life, but it is still a personality type, not a mental disorder. I have avoidant-dependant personality disorder, myself. Most of it comes from events that led me to feel extremely insecure (as in: how will I eat? who will care for me?) and it consolidated as I grew older. I also have OCD, that in my case is a manifestation of Tourette Syndrome (something you're born with), and possibly Asperger's (again something you're born with). I don't think you should be evaluating mental illness in patients if you can't do it by the DSM-5 criteria... Glad I don't live in the US.
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So mentally patient out there because there normal you guys just work for these companies you can't say we can't get are disability we need to vote on this
Your government that YOU elected made the decision to end disability benefits for severe obesity. What steps are you taking to change that? Have you written your Congressman and Senator yet?
Doc i have to disagree on the one patient the young lady that got captured and was tortured and repedily raped and said it made her stronger 😅. Come on man. Maybe when she was still in her younger years she may have felt that way but i honestly cant help but think as you she grows older all that torment will come back to haunt her thoughts n i promise you i hope n pray im wrong but dammmmmmnnnn!!! I dont know what else to say
My grandmother was the most stable predictable person in my school age years. My mother felt her loss was the only one. I barely saw her through the days of the burial. She sent me off with a cousins I barely knew. I didn’t cry but after if I started to say anything about her I got choked up. That lasted for 25 years. I was going to counseling because of a pending divorce. After a few months I started talking about her, still choking up. After some time I started crying in grief. I cried for a month about her. Haven’t cried about her since. I’m sorry I’m not able to be a succinct writer but I think my experience with grief is an example, proof we keep unexpressed feelings inside of us. I think you are right about that girl’s trauma. To me it seems getting it all out would take years of pulling the onion layers off one by one. One person I look up to is Elizabeth Smart. She managed to go on with life after her year in captivity. She married and has children.
I think I have neurosis. I have other diagnoses which don't seem to fit. I agree with you regarding the over diagnosed disorders. Btw I do agree with me having intellectual disability.
My daughter had 25 stays in hospital from age 13-17 with several long term stays. She received benefits as a teen but as an adult though she is still exactly as bad off she gets nothing.
The individual who insulted you is childish to remark that you are not a psychiatrist after wealth of information that you just gave! I suspected that person has post traumatic growth disorder😂
Hi Dr. Foster, Thank you very much for all your help. I have been listening to you and taking your helpful advice. My court date is in late April for my history of concussions from child abuse and assault in the military, along with back problems from my car accident. Is there any way a microphone thing can be used? I have my computer all the way up up and RUclips up and I am still having trouble hearing. Thank you as always.
I occasionally worked with a man in receiving at the warehouse on the campus I worked at. He unloaded trucks and moved product into these giant walk-in freezers. One wall of the freezer was glass. You could see this man working in there. You could also see him talking to himself, yelling at himself, hitting himself in the face! He also would have a fighting/screaming match with himself while driving himself about town. Many people were scared to death to be around him. But... he was the nicest guy when he was interacting with others. He could carry on with conversations, share his opinions, talk about projects at home. Idk what was going on with his mental health, but I think he was managing life as best he could and was definitely a hard worker. He definitely showed up for work like the rest of us who could.
I'm thinking, Tourette Syndrome...
. Or schizophrenic...
We have a man that works really hard doing yard work. He will be nice to you. The thing is he carries around a notebook and jots all these notes down and he stares at himself in window glass. He then starts having a conversation with HIS OWN reflection. He's getting older now and I worry about him. If ANYONE deserves disability I'm sure he would.Hes been mowing yards for YEARS. I wish halfway houses would be brought back. This way he could still do his work but would have supervision to help with his other needs.
@@jeannielynna Wise words I totally agree with you.
Could have been my schizophrenci son. He has a hard time keeping work because he scares people with his talking and cannot work with the public...as well, he needs constant supervision as he is incapable of following complex orders...but the nicest man you'd ever want to meet. I'm working on helping him get ssdi, hopefully just as a safety net, as he is limited in his jobs and has only managed to keep part time...all other places have fired him. I worry for him when I am no longer here to help support him as I am getting older
You stated your personal opinion that adversity makes most people stronger and supported it with one anecdote. This is identical logic to finding one person that survived Ebola without care and concluding it isn't a disease worthy of care and consideration.
I think he even pulled that anecdote from his ass. "Yes you can go back to being a soldier after being captured and r*ped due to being in a helicopter as it was shot down. It made you stronger, no SSDI for you, you can totally get your old job back. I heard it on a radio show, you don't have PTSD, you have Post Traumatic Growth Disorder."
We should all go through that to make us better and more able to hold employment.
I was able to assist my dtr when she turned 18 to qualify for SSI Supplemental. I feel what really helped her qualify was the fact I kept all her records, medical records, IEPs, hospitalization from being in psychiatric hospitals. At the time we applied she had many different diagnosis over the years but predominantly had at least 3 that plays a key role in her disability. Schizo-effective disorder, CPTSD, DID
I was trying to get my daughter on SSI bipolar schizophrenic. She would be real good for maybe a month at work take off I'd have to put missing person reports on her eventually she fell through the cracks of the system and she died 27 I went back to work after 2 weeks it wasn't an option. After about 6 months Dr pulled me out of work diagnosed with PTSD avoidance. I was a problem solver at work in the automotive industry I had to focus and talk with customers as well about 2 years exhausted the account that I put into when I work the 41 years and they don't tell you have to refile for long-term no income for 5 months I went to their doctors and in 5 months I was approved never denied once here I was fighting for my daughter that kept getting denied she dies in a horrific fire and I end up what's wrong with that picture?
Social security psychologist couldn't even diagnose my ptsd. A real psychologist did it in one session. I was losing my mind. My husband was so worried. I'm permanently on medication. Medication has an effect on your memory and your social skills.
So - approved or not? Asking for a friend, I mean me.
So the psychologist who agreed with you was right and the one who didn’t was wrong? Weird…
Me too
@@katiespielman8171 You are gutsy to ask for your friend, I mean you. Best of luck.
@@rommadsen6443 thanks. I did get a lawyer, but my evaluation isn’t due until Dec of Jan.
Thank you for this time you put into this video im sorry ppl can be uncomfortable or anger at this video i love to learn i love helping other i appreciate it ...thankful for the amazing honesty and knowledge...
Thankyou so much I got approved for Bipolar 1 at 22! this helped me so much. The mental health exam was very difficult as I got emotional having to answer some of the questions, but this video and others off of RUclips really helped me prepare my claim. It helped a lot that they let me bring my social worker/assigned counselor with me so I didn't have to go alone without a professional to help me through it.
I think what helped my case the most was that I had 10+ work attempts since 16, I had around 10 inpatient hospitalizations, had been working with a therapist/psychiatrist for years, lived in a transition to independence group home for some time, & had a job coach I had been working with for about 2 years. The good news is I can keep my benefit and still work at my job, but I don't have to worry about staying afloat months when I need IOP or PHP visits when my episodes get bad. SSI does make a big difference for a lot of us!
That's great you were approved. 10 hospitalizations by age 22 certainly sounds like a disabling condition. I had one woman in her early 40s who'd had over 20 psychiatric hospitalizations for bipolar 1.
Having more than 3 disorders doesn’t mean you have an incompetent doctor, and post traumatic growth disorder is crap, very few people would grow from a situation of trauma. I have complex PTSD and I have not grown because of this. I have panic attacks and triggers that hit me often and at the worst times. I haven’t grown stronger from this but I have slowly had to learn how to manage this. I’m glad I don’t live in America. In Australia we do have to show or prove we have a mental health problem with psychiatric reports etc. and yes it takes time to approve but it sounds much better than this, also our claims are backdated to the time we put the claim in for the financial aid.
I also go to the mental health hospital every 3 months for 1 month to have specialist medical treatment (TMS or trans magnetic stimulation). This helps me be more stable with my anxiety and depression than I used to be.
Trauma and response to trauma is actually pretty poorly understood. You can take the same person go through two traumatic events and not develop ptsd and then after a third they get ptsd. That same person can then have two more traumatic experiences and not have any ptsd symptoms associated with the events.
We do know there are some protective factors and liability factors for developing ptsd, but someone can have all of the known risk factors and none of the protective and not develop ptsd. Conversely someone can have all of the protective factors and none of the risk and they do develop ptsd. It’s an area in psychology that we really don’t know that much about and we should be dedicating a lot more resources to it.
Thank you for saying this! I have 9 disorders and have been seen for years and have seen other people to make sure they can hold up and I very much have them. People can have tons of issues and it doesn't mean they are any less. I was happy to watch this video and learn more as I navigate being denied and fighting for ss. It's bullshit to blame those of us with ptsd. I also have cptsd and hearing that we need to have a growth mindset from this guy pissed me off. There was also prejudice against personality disorders which was horse shit. I get it ss has to prove only tje severe cases otherwise there'd be no support etc I get it yet part of the reason why we have a mental health epidemic is because no one is listening to us and helping. You literally have to be drowning and nearly dead in order to get help and if you dare work then the rug gets ripped out from underneath you. Both you and I are valid and we truly struggle. I hope you can heal and have peace. It sounds like social security needs to change and quit being so ableist. It's not fun having disorders and being told you can cope when you can't control when your brain decides to fight against you.
post traumatic growth disorder, if it was an actual occurring and classifiable disorder, seems like it would be better explained/defined (using a little sarcastic humor) as just a nonfunctional trauma respose and self created coping mechanism using supression and denial to fabricate an alternative more easily negotiated reality of the traumatic event experienced which in turn results in a more socially desirable/acceptable/tolerable outcome & set of actions/emotions in the traumatized individual than those naturally/logically/commonly/typically experienced occurring/evidenced which, oddly enough, are found/listed in the published medical reference manual of psychological conditions & their defining necessary criteria present for a positive/accurate diagnosis of the non-fabricated uncontrollable commonly occurring result/outcome of a traumatic experience which is what the medical community accepts and refers to as PTSD & CPTSD....and he got his PhD in Psychology from what school? And is a practicing clinician with additional education/training in assessment licensed in what state exactly?...🤔🙄
@@heart1caligurl a "post traumatic growth disorder' as he describes it fails to meet the general criteria for a disorder namely "The symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning."
He's neither a clinical psychologist (with a PhD in clinical psych) nor a psychiatrist (an MD who does a residency specializing in evaluation and treatment of mental illness). He is an MD with specialization in some field other than psychiatry, probably internal medicine, family practice, or other primary care field. He should have stated this up front, and his failure to do so clearly misled many (most?) people here.
I agree with you. I found myself losing a lot of respect and confidence in Dr. Foster when he started talking like an uniformed anti-vaxxer. My C-PTSD has severely taken my life in a direction of addiction and self harm. I also homicidal thoughts that don’t even feel bad to me. No child is born thinking they want to harm others or themselves… someone or something normalized that depraved behavior… and there is no form of willpower to decide that those horrible things that happened to me “made me stronger.” I think I have to unsubscribe.
It’s bringing up all the times clinicians would gas light me, making me doubt my own feelings or memories. Minimizing my pain, “it happened so long ago. It’s time to move on” type of bullshit.
In the U.S. it is very difficult to access the experimental treatments like low dose ketamine, TMS, et al, cause a.) MDs would never recommend a treatment with still ongoing research that only shows correlation b.) it is cost prohibitive to most normal ppl with normal incomes. Of course, I am not employed due to my conditions so having Medicaid even makes it less likely that I’d be considered for more that just being put on an SSRI. It’s bullshit.
Incredibly useful! Fantastic explanation to enable patients to communicate for themselves during an independent medical review!
Watching this, im half inclined to write up a letter about what a day in my life is like so they understand just what the hell i live with. Because on paper they seem to think im in control and perfect, but im not. The only thing keeping me from being actively suicidal is that i have a cat and fiance depending on me. But if you tell that to your therapist, they'll lock you in the psych ward and theres nothing they can do to help when your issues come from the fact that your life sucks and you cant change it.
Are you OK?
Miserable but alive. It's hard not to be depressed about being stuck in this situation. Also just tired of being miserable and fighting for every little thing I need in life. Im not in any danger of hurting myself, if that's your concern. It was more about the extent of my hopelessness.
I hope your getting the help..please stay strong hun your stronger than you THINK
@@pinky-ud1rt I'm finishing up a DBT therapy program and moving on to trauma therapy after that. And I see a CBT therapist. My fiance and I fled for our lives about 15 months ago from my abusive mom and her abusive boyfriend threatening our lives so I know I'm stronger than I think. I have unfortunately had to test that entirely too many times in my lifetime. I'm almost 29 and barely able to handle 1000 steps a day. It's frustrating and everything feels like a battle. In a bit of retrospect I was in a depressive bout when I wrote this, but it's no less true. It's hard to feel like I have a life worth living at times. I try my best when I can.
@@forumkitty awww bless hun xx
took me three times tonget approved for disability. third time i lawyered up and won the case. i suffer from ptsd and and major back issues. I got approved because of the PTSD. before going into the coirt room in front of judge someone of the court took me and my lawyer intona room and told us the judge didnt want to put me through the pain agaon of explaining the day that caused my PTSD. judge approved me. long story short i witnessed my 14 year old son tragically die. was a horrific day ………
I'm so sorry you had to experience that.
@@laurenschroeder6614
Im soo sorry about your son bigg huggs x
@@pinky-ud1rt thx ☺️
Know all too well. I just had to go to their interview with two ladies, one was barely out of high school the other was preggo about 35. The girl about 20 talked to me about a half hour then the so called "Dr" asked me about 5 questions then I was done?? I said don't you want to know my background etc etc she said no. One question was "repeat these three things, "ball, cat and house" I think the third was some other word idr, but I only remembered the ball" She probably thought I was faking. So ya my wife took her life in 2016 and my daughter ODd from heroin in 2013 she was 24. I'll get denied, they'll say I can drive, walk and talk so I can work lol. I suffer from anxiety and panic disorder and yes some PTSD and take Xanax 1mg Q. I. D. My late wife was a RN if you can believe that....
Why didn't he mention anxiety and panic disorder
alot of mental disorders make you think your lazy such as depression, bipolar, and PTSD, agoraphobia you feel like your lazy and that's why you don't want to leave your house. It's so important to understand your illness.
However people DO suffer more than three (3) mental disorders. Unfortunately I’m married to someone who does, so I have first hand experience, and this is not my opinion, but as indicated by the DSM-5 AND diagnosed by mental heath physicians.
I suffer from severe mental illness and based on the criteria laid out I should qualify, but those last four questions you said you ask… is it really necessary that I be arrested, admitted, or have had an addiction to drugs or alcohol to prove it?
My primary issue are frequent, debilitating panic/anxiety attacks which completely shut me down and are easily triggered as a stress response. Rationally I understand what’s happening to me and I have coping skills to get me through them wihout self har,… the problem is is I need a quiet, calm, solitary place for 30 to 60 minutes to deal with the low intensity attacks. If I have a full blown “I’m going to die because I can’t breathe but I also WANT to die to end this suffering” it’s going to take a lot longer to get through.
I totally understand I also suffer from these frequent debilitating anxiety/panic attacks disorder along with depression. I was diagnosed in 2007 with chronic anxiety/panic attack disorder. I’ve had to take pills since I tried to get off them because later in life they can cause other health problems and conditions I did ok for about 6 months and had to go back on them. My doctor told me that my condition comes from a chemical imbalance in the brain. Stress, caffeine and not enough sleep can trigger the symptoms and attacks. I’ve cut out caffeine a little bit after I was diagnosed it helped fair amount but it Seems that my condition is getting worse lately and is so frustrating on the bad days the attacks cause me uncontrollably crying, panic attacks that feel like I’m having a heart attack and when I finally get it to stop and controlled I’m extremely exhausted and need to sleep for a few hours the exhaustion can go into the next day as well just a wiped out week exhaustion like I need to sleep more than normal. It’s frustrating as I don’t understand why this is happening to me or what is causing it….
Thank you for this video, which has opened you to criticism. It took my son who is bipolar over 4 years to get approved. He and his wife were seperated the day of the hearing and told their spouse had admitted he worked during that period to disqualify him, which wasnt true. My husband and I exhausted our savings during that time making sure they had what they needed,causing many sleepless nights and stress related problems for us. Many who need it are rejected, but at least its available to some.
this is what I have done for the past 3 years, and I did get an attorney, my son has had to take Depakote when he was 17/18 yrs. old he goes to a job and can't stay in the building, he has major problems and I have been keeping him up and living with him with no medication because I can't afford it and I can't get any help! Please pray for some peace and some answers! My son is now 38 and it's been a ruff 20 years but we are still trying!
@@booadam3 This is so unfair and cruel. I am in UK our Government plans to have the sick work from home. I don’t know where all the jobs are going to come from since the government has sold off all of our assets we have nothing in the UK. It’s seems that only the rich are entitled to a life and a hope for the future. It’s an ill divided world.
@@user-Tortured-soul Not that the US is any better but I've watched with horror the disintegration of the safety net in the UK in the last years. Your question about where jobs are going to come from is accurate. Not only that but what about people who sleep rough or have homes that are either not up to code or can't pay for heat? And what about children with mental health problems, are they supposed to "work from home"?
It's an insane scheme (pun intended). One thing that has given me some hope for having the funds to help people is watching Gary Stevenson on YT. He talks about income inequality though not in partisan terms. It's about fairness which seems to be pretty hard to come up with in our times. Greed rules the day and so many parts of society lose out. I believe that pressure starting at a local level is about the only way to go, like people here who push and push for their loved ones to get some help, disability. Sorry to go on. . . Take care.
I know exactly how you are feeling, my son is 41 and has lived with me for 6 years, he was homeless in another state so I took him in to try and help him but that hasn't worked out to well for me. I can't get any help for him, drs, meds or income. I'm 65 and get my SS, I also have anxiety and really hate going out just to get groceries, nowhere else if I can help it he is so unpredictable I never know what's going to set him off and that makes me extra nervous and panicking when we do go to the store, other than that we stay home. I stay in my bedroom most of the time avoiding him because he talks and hollers to himself most of the time or he gets confrontational and that stresses me bad . I love him but I don't know how much longer I can cope I thought I could get him some help sooner and I'm beginning to wonder about myself if I've helped him or have I hurt him by taking him in these past 6 years it has really taking a toll on my heath for sure, sorry for letting all of that out this is just the first time I have ever expressed myself about this. I don't have family or friends around here because I moved here to take care of my mom 8 years ago and she passed in 2018 and I just don't know anyone here , that's when my anxiety started getting really bad when I lost her. If he doesn't get help soon before I'm gone I just don't know what will happen to him, it's really sad that I can't get help to at least get him medical attention because he needs it but they'll let someone like him get in trouble and call the cops and put him in jail instead getting him medical attention. @booadam3
Many have ADHD but never get properly tested. Proper medication makes a huge difference.
It really does. But, the current most effective treatment for ADHD is a stimulant, which is partially effective... but doesn't last long. We need more effective treatments for ADHD.
@ScrewyGirl Adderall, redilin, Modafinil, Vyvanse, and many others can help. You just need to find your "prescription." Find which one works for you.
@@ScrewyGirlketamine perhaps
I like this guy he's hilarious in the best of ways....
I am a certified weirdo!
@@DisabilityExams which I guess falls in the last category you described in this video 🥰👍
I know, I want him as my doctor.
What makes him hilarious? He's trying to help people.
@@DisabilityExamsbut you are very helpful Doc... Thank you!! Also WHY BE NORMAL..? I like certain weirdos!👍🏻😂
Thanks for your insight. I'm facing reapplying for mental health reasons and dreading it.
I got disability 6 years ago for bipolar 1(age 27). I had been in the psych ward at that time about 15 times(now it's over 30), and attempted suicide several times. I had a long term psychiatrist and therapist who were able to provide paperwork displaying my complete disability. I had a lawyer as well. It took only 6 months with no judge hearing or meeting with their therapist.
I feel very fortunate. I hear a lot of stories of people having to wait years. Being on disability... sucks. I don't feel I am a contributing member of society, but like you mentioned, it's hard to keep a job when you are hospitalized every 6 months.
Oh, I was even able to get my college loans dismissed with the Total and Permanent Disability Discharge program, and my private loans dismissed when I told them I was undergoing ECT treatments, lol.
Sorry to hear about your problems. Yes, I have seen a patient with similar issues - bipolar 1, over 20 admissions in 15 years, multiple suicide attempts. That's severe mental illness by any standards. The thing is, generally Social Security will only approve mental health claims if the problems are severe: www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/12.00-MentalDisorders-Adult.htm#12_04
And, like you, disabled people often feel guilty about not working and contributing. I tell them - you didn't choose to be disabled, it happened to you. If you could work, you would.
Me too, except i never needed a lawyer. A lot of fakers out there but when u aren't, they pretty much come to you for disability
I would say that you are a contributing member of society though not by working at a paid job. Every day you do your best to take good care of yourself in a very difficult situation and that says something good about you. One good thing about disability is that, at least in theory, you have time to focus on taking care of yourself. Being able to see yourself as fortunate shows your compassion and is a feather in your cap. Taking care of yourself, compassion for others are truly important ways of contributing.
Ur hitting it on the note
Struggle with Heart Disease, I have Coronary Artery, Heart Disease and high Blood pressure. I also have Type 2 Diabetes.
If someone has been a long time user of alcohol and/or tobacco that the public has been warned about for decades I wonder how that will be judged. Society in general seems to be moving toward less empathy.
Cut out fat and junk food you'll be fine.
Once again, I agree with everything Dr Foster says in this video. He pretty well summarizes my job! I've been doing mental health evaluations for my state Department of Disability Determinations on claimants applying for SSI/SSDI for a little more than 30 years. I recommend to my friends who have family members applying for SS disability that they watch Dr Foster's channel here-- It's great to have all this good information available--
Really? You agree with EVERYTHING he says in this video? The second half is factual and accurate, very useful to people applying for social security disability benefits for mental health reasons. I have no problems with it.
But his first half is out of date, full of factual misstatements, ignores research data in favor of anecdotes, draws dubious conclusions from information filtered though patients, and fails to recognize current controversies and issues in the field directly pertinent to his statements (most notably major problems with DSM diagnostics being based on overlapping symptom clusters with no connection, and likely no capacity to ever be connected, to underlying pathology); all in a way that is predictably antagonistic to many he seeks to educate.
Granted I've only got 25 years of experience as a board certified psychiatrist who has done SSI/SSDI disability evaluations, but the first half of this video does not match the quality of videos in which he speaks within his scope of practice. It's essentially editorializing about topics outside his area of expertise where he does not appear to have extended effort to learn very much but nevertheless feels capable of judging both patients and their clinicians. This video would be vastly improved by cutting it in half and throwing away the first part, bringing it to a quality level consistent with his other videos.
Thanks for admitting that you are part of the "22 veterans a day" problem. How many veterans have you examined and determined that they can just go fucking deploy again? I bet you said "thank you for your service" while you were laughing at them for being homeless, suicidal and addicted to substances.
@@michaelclark4876 Thank you for sharing your expert opinion. As a lay person who has pychiatric diagnoses starting from the age of 19 and I am now 45, I have been witness to the changing data on certain conditions, and found that about 50% of my clinicians over the past 25yrs of treatment, do not keep up with the science. I do, so I can advocate for myself, not be spoken down to, and take part in my treatment of care. I have been diagnosed with all the mental health conditions Dr. Forster listed with condescension and dismissiveness. It has taken a lot of persistence from myself to get MDs to listen to me. I finally have a psychiatrist who doesn’t try to gaslight me when I tell them that just because I don’t have flashbacks of my childhood trauma, they then disqualify me for having any type of stress disorder since the DSM is so behind with understanding of trauma and adverse childhood events! I started therapy before the ACE checklist existed; there was no vocabulary that explained the effects of ACEs, addiction, neurosis and mood disorders- yes, I’m dual diagnosis, and yes, I have a recent ADHD diagnosis, and Bi-Polar II added to a recent evaluation after 2 years of CBT with this behaviioral group. Also recently, it was added to my record that I possess Cluster B traits. Twenty five years ago I was told that I’m depressed and that my insomnia will resolve itself with Zaleplon, then Ambien, then Trazadone, etc, etc. My depression and GAD in 1999 was treated with Benzos and Serzone-- both of which have fallen out of favor due to their risk of dependence and SSRIs becoming so chic.
My ADHD fixation has made my comment longer than I intended it to be. Thanks again for being a dissenting voice to Dr. Foster’s views.
Dude is summarily rejecting PTSD off his opinion off of one example and then talks about other therapists. 😂
He's not a psychiatrist and it shows. He should have stated so and made clear he doesn't do evaluations for mental health related disability. His editorializing about number of diagnoses reflects a deep ignorance of how the current diagnostic system (flawed as it is) promotes multiple diagnoses and how much of a controversy this is in the field. A person with major depression who is like the 40-90% who also meet criteria for generalized anxiety disorder has 2. And if that person also has drunk and intermittently used cocaine problematically (a not uncommon occurrence) will rack up at least 4 diagnoses under DSM-V. If they smoke too it's 5. If they were diagnosed dyslexic in school as well, now you have 6. All while formally following recommended DSM-V diagnostic methods.
"I heard on the radio about a female soldier who was shot out of the sky and then got captured, tortured and raped that it made her stronger".
Since this anecdote is definitely true, she clearly got denied for SSDI because she can totally go back to her old job and deploy again. She just needs a quick "thanks for your service". She can clearly suck it up and drive on. She just has Post Traumatic Growth Disorder.
This is why we have 22 suicides a day and so many of us are homeless.
@@michaelclark4876Nobody that's addicted to drugs, or booze is disabled! They can stop and I'm not talking smack (ptp) my daughter OD'd from heroin in 2013 age 24 and wife took her life in 2016 and believe it or not was a RN. I just went to their "doctor's, one was a kid maybe 20 just out of high school she looked the other was about 35ish, this was the doctor and barley asked me five questions. The kid talked to me about half hour. I have anxiety and panic disorder and PTSD I'm 58. I'll get denied they'll say I can drive a car, walk and talk I can work
I’m very curious about the Autism, the diagnosis scale is so broad now. My son turned 18 and he got bumped off his disability. I appealed and have a phone interview coming up. I’ve never done this before and I feel overwhelmed. He’s 19 and a Senior. He can’t drive, has zero friends, Impaired speech and trouble with his emotions when he has them. He’s, well, odd and different. Like a kid still. He has an imaginary girlfriend that’s a cartoon character. She talks to him. It scars me! He sees a therapist every two weeks. If something happened to me I’m so scared of what would happen to him. He’s easily manipulated. It’s such a grey area to deal with
Autism, along with bipolar illness and PTSD are current fad diagnoses, and are WAY overdiagnosed. For your son: if he is being treated/seeing a therapist, their records are crucial. If he is not seeing someone, ask Social Security to arrange for a psychological evaluation. Severe autism does qualify for disability. Link to Social Security's Listing of Impairments. Go to #8 - "Autism Spectrum Disorders" www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/12.00-MentalDisorders-Adult.htm
@@DisabilityExams Thank You
Perfect example of someone who doesn't truly understand. I'd like see you get your nose out of a book and be stuck in my head for one week. You absolutely contradicted yourself. Labeled my multiple dx basically bs, yet I fail at all of the four groups now. I couldn't even answer some of the judges questions after they asked multiple times. Couldn't comprehend it. The judge had to ask my lawyer to try to reword it a different way for me so I understood. I don't think I got it still. I felt like they just moved on. I was approved fyi.
Incompetent? You just made me feel awful about myself. Laziness?? Are people truly just lazy? Or is there an underlying condition that is impeding their ability to function like the others they see? Do you think that doesn't trigger anxiety, feelings of worthlessness, and depression? You need to spend some time with people that struggle. Contact NAMI and do some hands on, interactive research before you judge. Yes, you did that. How is someone so uneducated to the reality of these conditions going to be able to truly advocate for them??
Any idea how long it took my therapist to help me not feel the way you just did?
Dude he said he doesn’t do Mental Evaluations. Calm Down
One thing is for certain, this guy is not a psychiatrist. If he was, he would be aware that neurosis as a diagnosis hasn't been used for about 40+ years. Much longer than 'organic' has been out of favor. He would also be aware that one reason for people carrying multiple diagnoses is that the current diagnostic system promotes them. It is quite possible for someone to meet criteria for more than one condition. Indeed, close to half of all people meeting criteria for one disorder will meet criteria for one or more other disorders in any given year. Certain diagnoses are commonly found with each other: major depression and generalized anxiety disorder are 40-90% comorbid. Cormorbidity is also associated with worse outcomes, with predictable results for prevalence in people seeking disability benefits.
There is considerable debate in the profession about the degree to which comorbidity is reflective of something genuine about mental illness versus being an artifact of the diagnostic system (I freely admit to generally favoring the later). The issues with the current DSM system are severe enough that the National Institutes of Mental Health doesn't use it and has started an initiative to lay the foundations for a new system with their Research Domain Criteria.
Another reason for multiple diagnoses is that people may accumulate diagnoses over the course of their illness based on how they look at one point in time. Without realizing that later diagnoses may supersede older ones. This is exacerbated by people of limited training using DSM criteria as simple checkboxes and making diagnoses on this alone. In my experience, many such people have severe personality disorders, the existence of which often seem to go unconsidered except when inappropriately used to pejoratively label certain patients. Regardless, when asked about diagnosis on social security forms, every mental heath diagnosis someone was ever given may be listed. Such a list does not reflect all of these being diagnosed at once any more than a problem list on an EMR listing every diagnosis a person has ever received means they have all of these problems right now. Let alone that the treating clinician is incompetent.
This also happens when patients, as often happens, don't fully understand their own diagnoses and a clinician is taking their statements as though they are clinician statements and actual current diagnoses. The example of someone saying they have "depression and bipolar" is a classic one. They were likely given the depression diagnosis when depressed and the bipolar diagnosis when manic or hypomanic and failed to understand the depression was part of the bipolar disorder. I hear 'depression and bipolar' all the time from patients but I have never seen even a vaguely qualified mental health professional diagnose a bipolar disorder and a separate depressive disorder at the same time. The fault in this misunderstanding is vastly more likely to rest with Dr. Foster assuming a patient's statement about their diagnosis accurately reflects a real diagnosis, something every physician should be aware is not always the case. And FYI: although depression is typical in bipolar disorder, the illness is defined by manic or hypomanic episodes. Depression is not necessary. A single manic episode without any depressive episodes will earn you a Bipolar I diagnosis. Another thing he would know if he were a psychiatrist.
Fads absolutely are an issue in psychiatry. They arise more easily than in some areas of medicine (though fads exist throughout health care) because we still have to rely on the clinical interview and there are still no objective tests for any psychiatric condition. They tend to happen due to certain common factors. These include loosening of criteria (example: accepting trauma that does not meet criteria A severity of "death, threatened death, actual or threatened serious injury, or actual or threatened sexual violence" for PTSD), conflation of lay terms with actual symptoms ('mood swings' for mania), misunderstanding of terms ('racing thoughts' that are worries or rumination for flight of ideas), the fact that like many medical illnesses there is a continuous gradient from the normal range into pathology, combined with a failure of many people to apply a criteria which is always present "The symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning." (FYI: this is why there is no such thing as 'post traumatic growth disorder'. Shrink protip: when complaining about fad diagnoses, don't bring in a fake diagnosis to justify your view). All of these can result in overdiagnosis. Ironically, one of the 'fad' diagnoses he listed, ADHD has been found to be both over and under diagnosed. At least back closer to 2000, the majority of people diagnosed with it didn't have it AND most of the people who had it were not diagnosed.
I should also note that while many people do grow after trauma, this trauma tends to be less severe than that meeting criteria A for PTSD. It is also true that most people exposed to trauma meeting criteria A for PTSD don't develop PTSD symptoms. Why this is the case is an area of active investigation. Of those who do develop symptoms, most see a substantial decrease or remission within 12 months. A substantial minority do not, and these people tend to have symptoms for years or decades. Overall there is a rule of thirds for those developing symptoms, one third will remit, one third will moderately improve, one third will remain refractory. The fact 2/3rds get better doesn't mean the condition doesn't exist or can't be disabling. Fads increase the number of people claiming a diagnosis, they don't decrease the number of people who actually have the condition.
All of these issues are why social security disability evaluations are done by psychiatrists and clinical psychologists, who are trained to diagnose mental illnesses and not clinicians without such training such as Dr. Foster. Speaking as a psychiatrist who has done social security evaluations, I think this video would be greatly improved in utility and accuracy by cutting off the editorializing first half and leaving the factual second half.
I have been on disability 23 years now. Unlike everybody else, i put no effort into applying. An advocate did it all for me and there was no contesting, no argument BOOM i started getting checks. I still don't really know what SS has as my illness i just know how hard it is to receive payments. I kinda didn't want to know. I don't think it would help for me to belive whatever my diagnosis was so they never told me but now i'm curious. Can i find out? I mean it's been a long time and i'm almost 65 anyway so they probably won't kick me off .... you'd think. I know from being down south now, a lot of people fake it cuz they don't want to work. WEll who does? xoxoxo
Wouldn’t some disorders belong to more than one of the six groups though? For instance I have Bipolar I disorder and I have psychosis symptoms in both my manic and depressive episodes.
Also, you can have Bipolar without depression. You only need to have a manic episode for Bipolar I.
If I had to guess part of the reason why it’s harder to get psychiatric illness approved for disability is because (often unlike physical illness) there are no objective/empirical evidence for the symptoms. Anyone can say they were depressed, or were manic, or were hearing voices. If I had to guess a history of involuntary hospitalizations makes the case easier?
His groups do not reflect current diagnostic groupings. He's not a psychiatrist, is speaking outside his medical expertise and pretty much everything in the first half of the video is better off ignored. The second half where he talks about how social security evaluates disability for mental illnesses is accurate however.
I am diagnosed with Narcolepsy and HPPD and have been trying different medications and therapies for at least five years and have had no lasting improvements and haven't been able to stay at one job for more than 7 months since I graduated from college due to the complications. My family members have suggested that I apply for disability, but I (being mentally unwell in general) struggle to take those steps for myself if I feel they will be fruitless. Do you think I should try to apply?
If your retired and have mental issues anxiety depression ptsd, can you be eligible for ssdi ? I have panic attacks so bad I can’t even hold a partime job for a month. Depression and manic highs
Not if you are already collecting SSI retirement. NO... You can't collect both...
You are retired and out of the workforce.
What about those released from prison and years of rejection for work dose that qualify?
I have ADHD DEPRESSING OCD FIBROMALGIA..AND I HATE BEING AROUND LOT OF PEOPLE I HAVE ANXIETY I SHOUT AT PEOPLE I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE STARE AT ME..I HIT MYSELF AND TALK TO MYSELF...I HEAR VOICES PARANOLD SO THERES ALOT FOR ME....I GET DISABILTY
What type of mental exams are normally performed for social security?
What Social Security calls "Psychological Assessments". They're done in person by clinical psychologist, who conduct a diagnositic interview with the patient taking 30 - 60 minutes. I don't do detailed a detailed psychiatric assessment on patients I see for exams because there isn't enough time, but if they show obvious signs of serious mental illness I put that in my report.
@@DisabilityExams last time I had to go to a mental exam the psychologist did a SLURS test (I think that’s the name of it) I was just wondering if maybe there is a standard test that all psychologists use during the exams or if they choose random tests? Since there are so many different tests that can be used to test for the same things like ptsd, or bipolar , panic disorder and so on . How do they determine what type of test to use to evaluate someone when they haven’t even met the person?
My relative was in a psych hospital 17 times for psychosis. With schizoaffective disorder. 17 times ! Even taken with police and put in straight jacket in hospital. She recently told me she knew how to get out of a straight jacket in the hospital in the past. Yep they denied her Disability. Thankfully she is over 62 now. Almost old enough to also get medicare. 65 soon
Really? The last time I saw a straight jacket in a hospital was in 1980 - and it was an antique. I haven't heard of anyone using a straight jacket since then.
@DisabilityExams
Yes it was in possibly 1989 In Florida possibly the 1990s. She thankfully has been in
" remission" with Zyprexa since 2011 I believe, so it's been 13 years without a psychotic break. Through prayer and petition also her being on thyroid meds which If your thyroid is off you can get psychotic symptoms. So between levothyroxine and Zyprexa she had been good. She is still a tiny paranoid at times but its mild compared to an actual "breakdown".
She applied for disability I believe in the 2010s timeframe, likely after her last psychotic break.
My son has autism and is in the process of applying for ss he is currently 15 1/2 yrs of age and lives with his mother she is trying to see if he qualifies for ss by time he is 18 yrs of age. i currently provide child support for him on a monthly basis. i know that there are 3 levels of autism to me he seems like a level 2 as he still need help with common thing and in no way will he every drive as he cannot handle the stress or the complexity he is verbal but not fluidly he sometimes has a meltdown at school or at his mother he is and has been on Risperdal which helps a lot he is very smart and does well in school. and most of the time is well behaved. still very socially awkward. and hyper focuses on trivial things like numbers and letters etc. im just wondering as his father if he has a chance to qualify as i don't see him even living alone or holding some type of financially supportive job. just by the nature of his autism. and yes he has a diagnosis of autism by his doctor and is in special education and has been in elementary and jr high. any insight on this appreciated thanks
Hello Sir. I am no expert on here but your son sounds just like my son which is also on the spectrum. He will be 17 in a couple of months. He was also diagnosed with Bipolar and ADHD. SSA denied him because my wife had been making too much money at her job and no parent was on disability?
I hope this helps and I wish you all nothing but the best. God bless! 🙏🏼
Thank you
It sounds to me like your son would qualify for SSI now, unless his mother has too much income
or is not impoverished. In that case he would not qualify for administrative reasons even though clinically he would qualify. It appears from what you have said that he would qualify when he reaches age 18. Good luck!!
@@williamrigby1867 thank you for your comment he has an appointment with ssi in a few weeks as for his mothers financial situation I’m not sure what it is she works at dollar general so I don’t think it’s much. She does live in a double wide trailer home that’s paid for be me when we were married that I left to here when we divorced in 2013. Mainly so my son would have a place to live with his mother. He is now in the process. I encouraged his mother to start early as I know it generally takes some time. I greatly appreciate the information thank you
The problem is that the whole system! The End
I watched all your videos, and then went to my disability exam. To my shock and unfortunately to my dismay, the doctor never even looked at me never really talk to me, I never ask any of the questions that you say get asked, he came around and poked me in my side, and then asked me if it hurt. And that was it, so I think it’s probably safe to say he didn’t give a actual shit about me one way or the other
If you really feel your exam was inadequate, I suggest you contact Social Security and tell them about it.
Yeah gotta love the 3 or more and incompetent Dr...... I am on disability and originally had no idea what specific diagnosis was it, as major depressive order did not fit the bill. I have a BPD as it turns out. Which afterwards yeah I see, but it took years of living with it and making other's lives hell. But along with that I am Autistic and have sever PTSD brought on from growing up in a home with no real empathy nor compassion. So there is three for sure and co-morbidity is a real thing as well. And the process of getting disability was behind the scenes for me. Forget the organization that is in each state (same one), that provides legal help. Not for free, they take a 1/3 cut of your disability allotment check for the 1st go (if you were not familiar with the process, the date you are declared disabled (which is not when you apply, nor when you first start to see the problems, but somewhere in between, cause it is not diagnosis either, but you get a disbursement equal to back to the date of disability. Which for me was one year and received a lump sum then the monthly disbursements)). But they were the ones I am sure that got it, as the company disability insurance was tired of paying out, and the process for me was fast, way fast. But I was also at a treatment facility when that ball got rolling. Never talked to a SSA Dr. The one conversation I had with the SSA was "you need to be here in 1 month for an interview" me: "not possible, I am at a facility and not able to leave".... that went back and forth a bit. Said he would get back, 3 weeks later approved.
And how bad a BPD..... you do not want to know.
Doctor - I’m very interning hearing your opinions on brain scans that reflect the change in firings with some of the things you’ve mentioned. And did I hear your definition of mental health wrong at the beginning? It sounded like you said faked?
Work burns me out so bad I am suicidal every day, but that didn't help my case. I got denied. Since then, in addition to depression, anxiety, and ocd, I have been diagnosed with autism. But I have six years of working full time (with some time on short term disability) I doubt they would approve me even though my medical providers think I should apply.
You're not going to get approve the first time you apply.
My son got approved first try
Hey, I would like to challenge a belief you stated in this video. It’s not out of anger by the way. I’m going to use myself as an example. The thing I take issue with is your belief that having more than three mental health diagnoses suggests an overzealous counselor or dr. I implore you to look into comorbidities. I am diagnosed with inattentive type ADHD where it makes focus a challenge. It’s paralyzing beyond the point of procrastination or not wanting to complete tasks and having extreme difficulty in doing so. Please research adhd. It isn’t a candy coated diagnosis. It may be commonly diagnosed because of how strongly it is tied to a persons body being unable to produce and regulate dopamine. It is a real chemical imbalance and not everyone receives benefit from medications available. Psych meds, as you know, only help 50% of people who take or try to take them. Ok, next one, I have major depressive disorder and I am treatment resistant. Just having that diagnosis should tell a disability examiner this affects every aspect of life. This isn’t just depression. It’s the most intense all pervasive version that does not go away with talk therapy alone. Your body does not make or process serotonin normally. You need both psych meds that actually work on you to produce the chemical and lifelong therapy. If I were one of the lucky ones that medications help and I saw improvement, it would not be improved to such an extent that I am ever normal or at a regular level of functioning. Next, I have agoraphobia with panic disorder. I barely leave my home because I am in a constant flight and fear state. Exposure therapy only does so much. If a person has a fear of heights, you might be able to get them on an elevator to the top floor and stand next to a railing on the 200th floor but that fear never leaves. Your body reacts. You would have such bad vertigo and unpleasant anxiety every single time it just ends up reinforcing the fear instead of growing from it. Some things cannot be forced or fixed to a regular level and it’s really important that’s recognized. Panic disorder is basically your body preventing you from progressing. It’s the same repeated negative reinforcement every single time a person has a panic attack. When I have a panic attack it’s not a 15 minute ordeal. It’s one to two hours of being unable to stop replaying what caused it, and having those attacks repeat until you are so depleted you have to completely shut off and sleep a few hours with medication that lessons racing repetitive thoughts. I’m diagnosed with social anxiety disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. These are two completely different things where anxiety dictates your life. Social anxiety is anything public around people causing an inability to function normally. You can’t be around anyone comfortably. Your insides are acid and you find zero enjoyment in social situations. GAD is when you are home without any reason to be in worry or fear but you find yourself sitting sweating worrying with no trigger. Next I have a documented sleep disorder that gets worse with stress. I’ve done sleep studies, worn a watch for a week, gone to a sleep dr and there is really no help when it’s psychosomatic aka it happens because of worry over not being able to sleep. Some days I get two hours of sleep. You can’t function at any job that sleep deprived or learn new information and retain it without constant mistakes being made on the job. The help I’ve gotten from said dr was to be told not to look at my cell phone before bed and to avoid light. That is no help. Next, I have a migraine specialist and I’m sick at least five days a month in bed vomiting. Migraines get so intense it’s like having the flu. You can’t be in a room with any light or noise, you can’t eat, you can’t even sit upright in a chair and there’s no warning one is coming on with my type. There is not an employer on earth who is going to be ok with 5 random absences a month on that one single condition alone. I was also diagnosed with a personality disorder and it’s called avoidant personality disorder. I strongly urge you to read about personality disorders because we are completely aware of how irrational they are, we know something is wrong with us not other people. We crave relationships but we are prevented from having many or any because this disease makes anything social practically unbearable. It feels like climbing a mountain to reply back with a two sentence text. You’re so lonely it is soul wrenching but the discomfort kills progress and desire. You find joy in nothing. You hate yourself. It gets worse as you age and there is no cure. You can be given coping strategies but none of it really helps you. I’ve done years of cognitive behavioral therapy with different therapists on and off for 30 years and it barely makes anything better. I have had agreement by several different drs at different facilities that all agree on me having every single one of these diagnoses. It is actually very common for people to have many clusters of different mental disorders that bounce off of and feed each other. I don’t know how to make someone, a stranger, understand how debilitating and life destroying all of these are by themselves but when you combine all of this, you’re just existing in a hell that you know no matter what you try, you will never be normal. People like me should not be expected to work when it is impossible for them to. I have letters from my counselor, my psychiatrist, my primary dr, and my migraine specialist all saying everything I have is severe and makes activities of daily living and employment a non starter. I applied for SSDI and it’s been over two years for me to even be given an adjudicator for reconsideration. My work credits run out September of 2025. I have a ce mental exam on the 27th. If I can’t get a stranger to realize how badly I need this and how qualified I am for being granted disability and they deny it, by the time I get assigned an appointment to appeal and go in front of a judge, I will no longer qualify because of all of the time I’ve spent waiting with how behind disability is. If I can’t convince you I probably can’t convince them. So my question at the end of all of this explanation and suggestions is, have I convinced you? If I haven’t what do I need to share to get you to take me seriously? I could use the advice if you’re willing.
You are not alone. And you put anxiety on a platter. I've been seeing Drs for 25+ years, since I was 14 for anxiety. I actually faint. I can't go to the grocery store without putting it off until there's nothing in the cupboards at all and even then I'm dizzy the whole time and rushing and forget to get the things I actually needed. I have suffered with Borderline since around 14 and ADHD since as long as I can remember, neither of those were properly diagnosed until 2016. They jumped to depression even though I don't hit a single marker for it, put me on literally every antidepressant from every class over three years and it did nothing but make me feel suicidal and even more agitated. My ADHD is so debilitating that even taking a shower is so overwhelming, but I have to do it and usually cry from the stress of it. I hate people. I have never had friends, I don't speak to any of my family, i have no desire for any form or social interaction. Best of luck to us both ❤
Hey lady, thank you for sharing some of your story. My mental health went to hell at age 14 too. No one understands what it’s like surviving like this unless you have it. It’s not living.
Hello. I attended a CE exam 6 weeks ago for autism/depression. 3 weeks after that I received another letter to attend a second CE for the same impairment. I was told that a CE was a one time meeting. They were different doctors and both were very nice. Is it normal to have two mental health CE exams in six weeks for the same impairment?
Thank you for your videos.
How did your exam go? I'm asking because I have a consultative exam in a few weeks.
No, it's not normal. However, every so often Social Security schedules folks for exams that don't really make sense to me - I had one person who was applying for their child, and they scheduled them twice with me in two months - and nothing had changed. I always recommend going along with the exams, because if you don't go, it can stop your disability application progressing.
I'm agoraphobic and have PTSD and having extreme issues getting started I'm so afraid of getting shut down it's too big of a mountain for me
Can you apply for disability while still working waiting for approval ??
If you are exceeding what Social Security calls "Substantially Gainful Activity", which is earning over $1,550 per month, you will not be approved. If you are earning under that you can be approved.
@DisabilityExams ok..thanks..so I will need to retire to apply ? I make more than $1,500 a month now
I agree that some things like PTSD and Bipolar are over diagnosed, and I don't know if people are really getting doctors to sign off on these, or they're lying about it. But it annoys me a lot.
I'll skip the absurd details and events leading up to it, but I was diagnosed with Bipolar 2 in my early twenties. After my second hospital stay around twenty six years old it was changed to Bipolar 1. Before getting SSDI I was working a new job after every manic episode because episodes involved things like distrust, delusions, reckless behavior, etc. So I would meet a whole new gang of people to work with one or two times each year.
During those jobs I had dozens of people tell me they were Bipolar. I wasn't telling them I was OR asking them if they were. They would just tell me they're Bipolar like it was a cool interesting personality trait. Which always threw me off since I kept my diagnosis a secret cause it's embarrassing. Every time someone told me they were Bipolar I would ask questions about what kind of symptoms they get when they're manic or depressed, or how often episodes happen for them.
They would just say things like "Oh, I can get mad really fast and I'll just snap at people" and overtime I realized a lot of these people were self diagnosing themselves with Bipolar disorder and using it as an excuse to be rude to others. When I'd ask them questions like "when was your last manic episode?" I'd get insane answers like "Oh, yesterday I had a bad one" or "I had one this morning". The more questions I asked the more obvious it was that they didn't even know what Bipolar disorder was.
It honestly pisses me off because if those people understood how much it can ruin some people's lives, jobs, friendships, family, future plans.. like if they understood how destructive this is and how hopeless it be when you can line up all your stupid ducks in a row and work so hard to mend friendships and repair bridges and go start a new jobs, just to watch it all burn down again and again and again, maybe they wouldn't wear it on like a cheap Halloween costume.
And the more I deal with this the more I fckin HATE people who walk around using things like Bipolar and PTSD type labels in their Twitter or Instagram bios cause they think it's something that makes them interesting or get's them sympathy. While people who really have these disorders are fighting everyday to not give up and quit, there's herds of clowns out here pretending to have mental illnesses because it grows more trendy every time a mentally ill celebrity offs themselves.
I don't know why I just typed all this down on a random youtube video, I don't know why I do anything. Anyways, thanks for the information. Insightful video with lots of information.
You are correct, bipolar illness, especially bipolar 1 is a very serious psychological condition, as bad as schizophrenia for some, but every moody person (most of who are either normal, or have a personality disorder) is diagnosed with bipolar illness these days. I'm going to do a video on psychological disorders that are grossly overdiagnosed today, and those that are grossly underdiagnosed.
Makes sense
6yrs military 14 Law Enforcement. PTSD MDD with psychotic features panic disorder anxiety disorder psychosis an OCD makes my life hell everyday but I guess the doctor is just a bad doctor cuz I have more than three diagnosis.
I'm sure you been through some harsh times and seen a lot of mind bending stuff. Is hard to find doctors that take their time to fully grasp what's going on, some can be very condescending and in a rush, which probably is a waste of time, then their are excellent doctors who genuinely try to get an understanding, take their time and are empathetic, these doctors end up leaving big affiliated hospitals and start their own practice and you have to wait a while to be seen because everybody wants that doctor. Also so difficult to find a good therapist. Especially if your on Medicaid, the state pays therapist a lot less money than a therapist who gets paid by say Blue Cross Blue shield or any of the bigger name companies. Thank you for your service, and I hope you find someone who can help.
Sir you are giving disingenuous info. The young lady you described about war may not have chronic post traumatic stress disorder but I guarantee you she worked through that trauma with therapists and medications. And now is living her life and is successful. But to say she just dealt with it or got over it is silly. .I am the only survivor of a serial killer rapist and was punched in the head repeatedly with brass knuckles and I too am and was highly functioning. Of course I had to work through the trauma and I have a traumatic brain injury. I didn't go on disability until 2 years ago. I am a former trauma nurse but retired and went on disability 2 years ago at age 55. I am not struggling with my attack that occurred when I was 24 however, organization and time management along with serious attention problems drove me from the work force. Every case is different. The hope is that people will continue to seek treatment and management of their challenges physical or mental and not end up living on the street somewhere. Improving quality of life safety shelter and finding some worthwhile cause to find joy in their difficulties as all of us as humans strive to do b
I have major depression, schizophrenia anxiety, and cognition issues. Most of the time I lay in bed. I think something is out to get me.
Thank you so very, very much! Super helpful!!
Social security says they can do anything they wish and never are on the applicant side so I gave up gonna try again
I had meningitis when I was born it attacked my brain and it hard for me to understand thi no
You didn't cover multi personality disorder.
Of course not
And what are your credentials at diagnosing psychiatric disorders? It takes years of training after medical school to become a psychiatrist.
The definitions of something like bipolar disorder change every 10 years the definitions of borderline personality or the symptoms of it change every 10 years
Drug addics OD before they can stop using drugs, this disease affects their emotional, social status, mental, financial, spiritual health, and their families, but they are not qualify for benefits? This issue should be extremely important to the SSA office.
They use to qualify like 30 years ago, but they stopped that.
It sucks but I think SS looks at it just like a disease--you can't be sick and then not try to get treatment for it. Any treatment for drug/alcohol addiction will automatically include stopping using the substance and/or getting on other meds prescribed by a doctor
"In the personality disorders, the patient's behavior causes problems with others, but the patient feels they're just fine, there's nothing wrong with them, the problem is with everyone else." This is the most outrageous generalization of personality disorders I've ever heard. I have borderline personality disorder and trust me, I don't feel just fine, I feel like everything is wrong with me, and that I'm to blame for a failed life. Channel abandoned.
The problem is about disruption in the workplace. If somebody has mental illness (schizophrenia or Bipolar II) it stops productivity and causes drama and this is what makes the person unemployable because they get fired immediately.
Do you expect him to beg you to stay on his channel? Typical BPD tactic.
@@psychedforlife7176impulsive and a$$hole-ish replies are typical BPD tactics too. Welcome!
Well, seems like your response confirms that your diagnosis 🥴🤦🏻♀️
@@burghlerHave the more severe bipolar 1 and was employee of the month and outworked them all. Without medication. It is how people act around me. I am happy when around happy people and vice versa.
I'm a scitzophrenic with ADHD /:
Learning disabilities, bipolar and schizophrenia, paranoid doesn't help life. I've been on ssi for yrs along with unknown disease of the spine, life sucks but I try to make the best of it.
I'll bet many play the system. I have never heard of Post Traumatic Stress GROWTH! I like that!!
I have that after food shopping.
lol @@deborahaichele8829
... neither have I.
Bipolar 1 is the more serious. Bipolar 2 is much less serious bc it doesn’t have mania that lasts weeks at a time. Bipolar 2 is primarily depression.
Bipolar 1 and 2 have equal depression. Bipolar 1 has mania, bipolar 2 hypomania, which is less severe. However both have about the same high risk of addiction and suicide, so neither is trivial.
What about anxiety disorder and panic attacks.
I was on disability for anxiety and panic disorder the key is a long history of treatment. My treatment went back to the late 90s. Seeing a psychiatrist 3 times then applying for ssdi will be denied.
@@bujindork key to win thos is met a listing or have no work history clame you had life long problems but didnt know how get help
What if you attempted Suicide Several times and Was Hospitalized for up 6 weeks and sometimes less Now I have
Had Problems remembering people who I have been Friends with and Remember
Names Numbers, if I have taken my meds because I feel sometimes I or sometimes I didn’t I have been diagnosed with reacuring Depression
Since 1970s
That may very well qualify for Social Security Disability. I'm going to be making the second part video on neurosis, including anxiety and depression this week - I think you will find it helpful.
Thank you for yo video♥️💖💋💋👌
The voices are telling me....that you just admitted that you are not a psychiatrist
I am NOT a psychiatrist.
The system is a failure..it is rigged that no matter what short of having a couple months to live..will you be successful in winning your disability claim unless you are 50 years old with limited education and only have had hard labor jobs . Now if you are 50 or older with easier jobs or clerical type positions..well let's just put it this way..as long as you can pass out a ticket or write down a phone number you will never get it because every job in the national economy has to be ruled out whether they exist or not so basically if the job can be thought up it exists. I am simply stating facts that everyone that has went through the process knows to be 💯 percent correct. And I have never in my life nor will I ever believe in the idea that if you have an ongoing condition and or conditions and have regular Dr's that you see with mris and documentation of impairments that by seeing an independent medical examiner is going to know more about you in 12 minutes of asking you to do a few lame steps that they have more say so than your Dr's. That my friends is just absolutely ridiculous and do you really think someone that is paid by the government solely to discredit you that they are actually going to help you....please.
He's a medical Dr not a psychiatrist.
You need to appreciate others' going out there way to give FREE knowledge to some that CAN'T explain how they are feeling as you can't.... as I see in your comment.
Thank you jDave
Very helpful video.
Ok...watch a truck explode knowing your Grandma was still inside when you're 10 years old, never receive mental health help for it because Mom tells you you're "not allowed to be so upset because it was HER parents, not mine" and tell me how I'm supposed to GROW!! I see that image EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE. But yea, I'm ok
EMDR?
Well, your antiquated view of personality disorders is exactly that, antiquated. Those disorders are forged in time, as the personality develops. It's not something that occurs in early childhood, and has NO genetic components to it. Manifestations of personality disorder start to appear in late adolescence / early adulthood, and not before. What tweaks your personality is mostly environmental, or social: neglected kids will become narcissistic, for example, to make up for the lack of attention.
Personality disorders cannot be properly controlled by medication, either, because you see, it's our personality. It's extreme and hinders everyday life, but it is still a personality type, not a mental disorder.
I have avoidant-dependant personality disorder, myself. Most of it comes from events that led me to feel extremely insecure (as in: how will I eat? who will care for me?) and it consolidated as I grew older.
I also have OCD, that in my case is a manifestation of Tourette Syndrome (something you're born with), and possibly Asperger's (again something you're born with).
I don't think you should be evaluating mental illness in patients if you can't do it by the DSM-5 criteria...
Glad I don't live in the US.
I called my Senator, and he said it was your fault
Thank you rf😊l
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Thats crazy
So mentally patient out there because there normal you guys just work for these companies you can't say we can't get are disability we need to vote on this
I think it's wrong that anorexia and bulimia will get a person disability, but not chronic overeating, binging or severe obesity.
Your government that YOU elected made the decision to end disability benefits for severe obesity. What steps are you taking to change that? Have you written your Congressman and Senator yet?
Right it seems the opposites gets approved like druggie people get it people with real health issues a fight
you can profit off obesity, it's hard to profit off anorexia
@@DisabilityExams it sounds like you're accusing me.
I don’t think you can diagnose anyone you need your social security
It would help if you phrased your comment in grammatical English.
I like this dude!
hello YT video watching people
Doc i have to disagree on the one patient the young lady that got captured and was tortured and repedily raped and said it made her stronger 😅. Come on man. Maybe when she was still in her younger years she may have felt that way but i honestly cant help but think as you she grows older all that torment will come back to haunt her thoughts n i promise you i hope n pray im wrong but dammmmmmnnnn!!! I dont know what else to say
My grandmother was the most stable predictable person in my school age years. My mother felt her loss was the only one. I barely saw her through the days of the burial. She sent me off with a cousins I barely knew. I didn’t cry but after if I started to say anything about her I got choked up. That lasted for 25 years. I was going to counseling because of a pending divorce. After a few months I started talking about her, still choking up. After some time I started crying in grief. I cried for a month about her. Haven’t cried about her since.
I’m sorry I’m not able to be a succinct writer but I think my experience with grief is an example, proof we keep unexpressed feelings inside of us.
I think you are right about that girl’s trauma. To me it seems getting it all out would take years of pulling the onion layers off one by one.
One person I look up to is Elizabeth Smart. She managed to go on with life after her year in captivity. She married and has children.
Neurotics - the worried well.
People who've never dealt with the seriously mentally ill, like this commenter, are clueless.
Your opinion and SS’s criteria are both archaic
I was born 150 years too late.
I think I have neurosis. I have other diagnoses which don't seem to fit. I agree with you regarding the over diagnosed disorders. Btw I do agree with me having intellectual disability.
Why are people talking about what they have a doctor has to give you these titles you cant thats why you dont get approved
Slow as this man talks made me think something was wrong with me, I had to speed up the video to feel norm...
HEY Y'ALL GET REFERENCE FOR HIM 👆🏻👆🏽
So you not doctors then make sure we don't get disability like I said
My daughter had 25 stays in hospital from age 13-17 with several long term stays. She received benefits as a teen but as an adult though she is still exactly as bad off she gets nothing.
The individual who insulted you is childish to remark that you are not a psychiatrist after wealth of information that you just gave! I suspected that person has post traumatic growth disorder😂
HE IS QUITE A BIG BOY , KNOW ABOUT THE SUBJECT ...
MENTAL HEALTH IS DISCRIMINATED AGAINST.
NO WAY TO PROVE THIS, VERY SAD.
I take it you haven't watched any of my mental health videos. You might want to watch a few.
Wow ptsd is real that lady that was raped thats her nit all people are not the same this is BS
Hi Dr. Foster, Thank you very much for all your help. I have been listening to you and taking your helpful advice. My court date is in late April for my history of concussions from child abuse and assault in the military, along with back problems from my car accident. Is there any way a microphone thing can be used? I have my computer all the way up up and RUclips up and I am still having trouble hearing. Thank you as always.
What about those released from prison and years of rejection for work dose that qualify?
What about those released from prison and years of rejection for work dose that qualify?
What about those released from prison and years of rejection for work dose that qualify?
What about those released from prison and years of rejection for work dose that qualify?
That isn’t a disability, it’s a circumstance
What about those released from prison and years of rejection for work dose that qualify?