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(6) Health and physical well-being.

The SSA Medical Listing which describes Anxiety Disorders have been consulted and reviewed

in conjunction with the preparation of this RFC form. Specifically:

112.06 Anxiety Disorders: In these disorders, anxiety is either the predominant disturbance or is

experienced if the individual attempts to master symptoms; e.g., confronting the dreaded object

or situation in a phobic disorder, attempting to go to school in a separation anxiety disorder,

resisting the obsessions or compulsions in an obsessive compulsive disorder, or confronting

strangers or peers in avoidant disorders.

The required level of severity for these disorders is met when the requirements in both A and B

are satisfied.

Indicate which of these findings is present in your answers below:

A. Medically documented findings of at least one of the following:

1. Excessive anxiety manifested when the child is separated, or separation is

threatened, from a parent or parent surrogate; or

2. Excessive and persistent avoidance of strangers; or

3. Persistent unrealistic or excessive anxiety and worry (apprehensive

expectation), accompanied by motor tension, autonomic hyperactivity, or

vigilance and scanning; or

4. A persistent irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation which

results in a compelling desire to avoid the dreaded object, activity, or situation; or

5. Recurrent severe panic attacks, manifested by a sudden unpredictable onset of

intense apprehension, fear, or terror, often with a sense of impending doom,

occurring on the average of at least once a week; or

6. Recurrent obsessions or compulsions which are a source of marked distress; or

7. Recurrent and intrusive recollections of a traumatic experience, including

dreams, which are a source of marked distress;

AND

B. For older infants and toddlers (age 1 to attainment of age 3), resulting in at least one of

the appropriate age-group criteria in paragraph B1 of 112.02; or, for children (age 3 to

attainment of age 18), resulting in at least two of the appropriate age-group criteria in

paragraph B2 of 112.02.

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