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So what should you do if you’ve suffered consequential depression, or anxiety or any other mental health affect to having suffered and industrial injury?

You should tell your attending provider at your very next visit. You should ask them to refer you to somebody who can help you with that.

You should make sure everybody understands that that is because of your claim, not because your cat died, not because your marriage is failing, not because your mother or father have a poor relationship or your children don’t listen to you anymore.

What you have to talk about when you go to mental health treatment under workers compensation claim, is how you’re feeling because you were injured.

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Video Transcript:

My name is Attorney Spencer Parr. I'm co-founder of Washington Law Center. I am a 16-year workers compensation attorney. In that time I’ve observed more than half of my seriously injured clients, eventually suffer from consequential depression and anxiety. There is nothing to be ashamed about. It is a normal thing to feel that way when your serious injury has resulted in impairments that mean you can no longer do the things you used to do; you can no longer be the person that you were before, and that you would like to continue being in the future.

So what should you do if you’ve suffered consequential depression, or anxiety or any other mental health affect to having suffered and industrial injury. You should tell your attending provider at your very next visit. You should ask them to refer you to somebody who can help you with that. You should make sure everybody understands that that is because of your claim, not because your cat died, not because your marriage is failing, not because your mother or father have a poor relationship or your children don’t listen to you anymore. What you have to talk about when you go to mental health treatment under workers compensation claim, is how you’re feeling because you were injured.

If you keep it to exactly that conversation, it will help us prove that the reason you’re depressed or anxious about the future, the reason traces back to your industrial injury or occupational disease. One more thing, it turns out that the value of a depression or anxiety claim that has been legitimized by being allowed on your claim, that may be higher to you when we come to the end of your claim, when we look at permanent partial disability settlement value.

That consequential depression or anxiety may be higher than your neck injury or your shoulder injury, or your back injury, because mental health consequential injuries are real. Don’t sit there feeling like you’re abandoned, feeling guilty, feeling like your world has changed and there is nothing you can do about it.

Please go to your doctor, tell them that you are having these problems, that you’d like to get treatment for it. Get it alleged under your claim and then if the Department of Labor Industries or a self-insured employer says, “No, you can’t have treatment”. Maybe they say it was preexisting, maybe they say that there is some other reason that they don’t think it was related to your injury, don’t accept that.

Come talk to us at Washington Law Center. We will stand up. We will fight for you. We will help you vindicate your rights because we know those consequential mental health injuries are real.