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Illnesses and injuries can both contribute to long-term disabilities. For people with a disability, the impairment can make it impossible to work. Meanwhile, medical bills and cost of living can build up, making you feel like you are falling further and further into a hole of unpaid bills. Thankfully, the Social Security Administration offers coverage to those who have disabilities, as long as you can prove that it does indeed prevent you from working. One neurological disability that the Social Security Administration handles is epilepsy.
The Social Security Administration, or SSA, has compiled a listing of impairments in order to make its decision-making process faster and smoother. This way, if your health issue is on the list of impairments, you are more likely to have your request approved for disability coverage. Epilepsy, both the grand mal seizure type and the absence seizure kind, is on this list.
Epilepsy can stem from a variety of causes. First, some people develop this condition as a result of a brain injury. Brain trauma can cause scarring of the brain tissue, which can later interfere with the electrical signals that are sent across the brain to control sense, movement, thoughts, and speech, among many other things. Other causes of epilepsy include illness and brain abnormalities, which may be something that a person has had since birth.
Epilepsy is characterized by seizures that can interfere with a person's ability to function normally. The types of seizures are divided into two main categories: grand mal and petit mal. Grand mal seizures are the ones that most people imagine when they think of epilepsy. A grand mal seizure rapidly spreads to all parts of the brain, which causes a person to lose consciousness and start convulsing. The brain uncontrollably stimulates the muscles into contracting and relaxing repeatedly, which results in the jerky motion of a seizure.
On the other hand, petit mal seizures, or absence seizures, can be equally as debilitating without the violence of a grand mal seizure. A person does not lose consciousness, but you stop conscious activity. Thus, a person who is in the middle of an absence seizure may only appear to be daydreaming or slightly out of it. A person may show repetitive, involuntary movements as well—such as lip smacking, chewing, or fluttering eyelids. This lasts only seconds and has virtually no recovery time.
Because of the disruption of both of these types of seizures, the SSA considers epilepsy to a disability if it fits certain criteria. After three months of unsuccessful treatment, your epilepsy can qualify as a disability if:
You suffer from grand mal seizures more than once a month
You suffer from petit mal seizures more than once a week
However, even with these episodes, it can be difficult to prove that you truly have a debilitating case of epilepsy. If you need help in proving that you have a disability, please visit the website of the experienced long-term disability attorneys from the Charles D. Hankey Law Office, P.C., today.
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