Mental Disorder Listings 12.05-12.07

This disorder is characterized by significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, significant deficits in current adaptive functioning, and manifestation of the disorder before age 22.

For SSA purposes, this generally involves having a full scale IQ of 70 or less, or a full scale IQ of 71 through 75 and a verbal or performance IQ of 70 or below, along with marked impairments in functioning.

Individuals who do not have the cognitive ability to take a standardized IQ test and who depend upon others for personal needs (eating, bathing, etc.) may also meet the criteria for this listing.

Intellectual disability or intellectual developmental disorder

This category does not include the mental disorders evaluated under neurocognitive disorders (12.02), autism spectrum disorder (12.10), or neurodevelopmental disorders (12.11) The Listing for Down Syndrome is found in 10.00.

1. Significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning evident in your cognitive inability to function at a level required to participate in standardized testing of intellectual functioning; and

1. Significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning evidenced by a or b:

a. A full scale (or comparable) IQ score of 70 or below on an individually administered standardized test of general intelligence; or

b. A full scale (or comparable) IQ score of 71-75 accompanied by a verbal or performance IQ score (or comparable part score) of 70 or below on an individually administered standardized test of general intelligence; and

2. Significant deficits in adaptive functioning currently manifested by your dependence upon others for personal needs (for example, toileting, eating, dressing, or bathing); and

2. Significant deficits in adaptive functioning currently manifested by extreme limitation of one, or marked limitation of two, of the following areas of mental functioning:

a. Understand, remember, or apply information

b. Interact with others

c. Concentrate, persist, or maintain pace

d. Adapt or manage oneself

3. The evidence about your current intellectual and adaptive functioning and about the history of your disorder demonstrates or supports the conclusion that the disorder began prior to your attainment of age 22.

3. The evidence about your current intellectual and adaptive functioning and about the history of your disorder demonstrates or supports the conclusion that the disorder began prior to your attainment of age 22.

• Restlessness
• Difficulty concentrating
• Hyper-vigilance
• Muscle tension
• Sleep disturbance
• Fatigue
• Panic attacks
• Obsessions and compulsions
• Constant thoughts and fears about safety
• Frequent physical complaints

• Social anxiety disorder
• Panic disorder
• Generalized anxiety disorder
• Agoraphobia
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder

*This category does not include the mental disorders evaluated under trauma- and stressor-related disorders, such as PTSD

• Restlessness
• Easily fatigued
• Difficulty concentrating
• Irritability
• Muscle tension
• Sleep disturbance

• Panic attacks followed by a persistent concern or worry about additional panic attacks or their consequences
• Disproportionate fear/anxiety about at least two different situations (e.g. using public transportation, being in a crowd or in a line, being outside of your home, being in open spaces)

• Involuntary, time-consuming preoccupation with intrusive, unwanted thoughts
• Repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing anxiety.

These disorders are characterized by physical symptoms or deficits that are not intentionally produced or feigned, and that, following clinical investigation, cannot be fully explained by a general medical condition, another mental disorder, the direct effects of a substance, or a culturally sanctioned behavior or experience.

These disorders may also be characterized by a preoccupation with having or acquiring a serious medical condition that has not been identified or diagnosed.

• Pain and other abnormalities of sensation
• Gastrointestinal symptoms
• Fatigue
• High level of anxiety about personal health status
• Abnormal motor movement
• Pseudoseizures
• Pseudoneurological symptoms, such as blindness or deafness

• Somatic symptom disorder
• Illness anxiety disorder
• Conversion disorder

Physical symptom, such as pain, weakness, shortness of breath.

Involves a person having excessive thoughts, feelings and behaviors relating to physical symptoms that results in major distress and/or problems functioning. The physical symptoms may or may not be associated with a diagnosed medical condition, but the person is experiencing symptoms and believes they are sick.

Involves a person preoccupied with having an illness or getting an illness and constantly worrying about their health. They may frequently check themselves for signs of illness, focus on health behaviors and take extreme precautions to avoid health risks. Unlike somatic symptom disorder, the person may not experience symptoms.

A condition in which symptoms affect a person’s perception, sensation or movement with no evidence of a physical cause. A person may have numbness, blindness or trouble walking. The symptoms tend to come on suddenly and may last for a while or may go away quickly. People with conversion disorder also frequently experience depression or anxiety disorders.

Symptoms of altered voluntary motor or sensory function that are not better explained by another medical or mental disorder;

One or more somatic symptoms that are distressing, with excessive thoughts, feelings, or behaviors related to the symptoms; or

Preoccupation with having or acquiring a serious illness without significant symptoms present.