Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
General Rating Formula for Mental Disorders
- 100% Disability
- Total occupational and social impairment, due to such symptoms as: gross
impairment in thought processes or communication; persistent delusions
or hallucinations; grossly inappropriate behavior; persistent danger of
hurting self or others; intermittent inability to perform activities of
daily living (including maintenance of minimal personal hygiene); disorientation
to time or place; memory loss for names of close relatives, own occupation,
or own name.
- 70% Disability
- Occupational and social impairment, with deficiencies in most areas, such
as work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking, or mood, due to
such symptoms as: suicidal ideation; obsessional rituals which interfere
with routine activities; speech intermittently illogical, obscure, or irrelevant;
near-continuous panic or depression affecting the ability to function independently,
appropriately and effectively; impaired impulse control (such as unprovoked
irritability with periods of violence); spatial disorientation; neglect
of personal appearance and hygiene; difficulty in adapting to stressful
circumstances (including work or a worklike setting); inability to establish
and maintain effective relationships.
- 50% Disability
- Occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity
due to such symptoms as: flattened affect; circumstantial, circumlocutory,
or stereotyped speech; panic attacks more than once a week; difficulty
in understanding complex commands; impairment of short- and long-term memory
(e.g., retention of only highly learned material, forgetting to complete
tasks); impaired judgment; impaired abstract thinking; disturbances of
motivation and mood; difficulty in establishing and maintaining effective
work and social relationships.
- 30% Disability
- Occupational and social impairment with occasional decrease in work efficiency
and intermittent periods of inability to perform occupational tasks (although
generally functioning satisfactorily, with routine behavior, self-care,
and conversation normal), due to such symptoms as: depressed mood, anxiety,
suspiciousness, panic attacks (weekly or less often), chronic sleep impairment,
mild memory loss (such as forgetting names, directions, recent events).
- 10% Disability
- Occupational and social impairment due to mild or transient symptoms which
decrease work efficiency and ability to perform occupational tasks only
during periods of significant stress, or; symptoms controlled by continuous
medication.
- 0% Disability
- A mental condition has been formally diagnosed, but symptoms are not severe
enough either to interfere with occupational and social functioning or
to require continuous medication.
