Mental Disorders and How to Collect Your Long Term Disability Benefits

Mental Disorders and How to Collect Your Long Term Disability Benefits

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27 Video Views·Jan 2, 2026

Attorneys Gregory Dell and Rachel Alters discuss mental health and mental nervous disability claims. Becoming disabled due to mental health is common. However, insurance companies often deny mental health claims because the symptoms are difficult to measure. Disability insurance companies will often minimize mental health symptoms. Insurance companies will look at how often you are treating, whether any testing has been done and what other activities you claim you can or cannot perform. Frequent treatment is crucial and frequently telling your therapist, doctor, psychologist, or psychiatrist about all of your symptoms and why you are unable to work is essential to getting disability benefits approved