25-Year-Old Mother Suffering with Depression, Bi-polar Disorder and Anxiety Disorder Awarded Benefits

I represented a young mother from Luling suffering from significant mental illness.  She was under the care of a psychiatrist and was inpatient at a behavioral health facility for weeks at a time over the past few years.  She needed help taking care of her children, including an autistic son.  She had attempted to work in the past but her mental illness caused frequent job loss. The client’s treating psychiatrist provided an opinion that job stresses would exacerbate all of her symptoms, that she could not work with or around the general public or co-workers, that she would have difficulty even performing simple, routine, repetitive work, and that she would be unreliable and not able to consistently maintain a routine, schedule or attend work.  The judge agreed with the claimant’s treating psychiatrist and found the claimant was disabled.  The judge issued a fully favorable decision.