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- May 25, 2013
I've personally never met someone who got disability for a personality disorder. Not saying it doesn't happen, but I don't think it's particularly common.For personality disorders:
12.08 Personality and impulse-control disorders (see 12.00B7), satisfied by A and B:
AND
- Medical documentation of a pervasive pattern of one or more of the following:
- Distrust and suspiciousness of others;
- Detachment from social relationships;
- Disregard for and violation of the rights of others;
- Instability of interpersonal relationships;
- Excessive emotionality and attention seeking;
- Feelings of inadequacy;
- Excessive need to be taken care of;
- Preoccupation with perfectionism and orderliness; or
- Recurrent, impulsive, aggressive behavioral outbursts.
- Extreme limitation of one, or marked limitation of two, of the following areas of mental functioning (see 12.00F):
I was in VocRehab though, which was genuinely useful and something I'd reccomend other people with disabilities and mental illnesses unsure of their work abilities try.