Hidden Disabilities
What Are Some Common Hidden Disabilities?
- Psychiatric Disabilities
- Examples include major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, etc.
- Autism
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Epilepsy
- HIV/AIDS
- Diabetes
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Attention Deficit-Disrorder or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder(ADD/ADHD)
- Learning Disabilities (LD)
- Medical conditions associated with hidden disabilities.
- Examples include short or long term, stable or progress, constant or unpredictable and fluctuating, controlled by medication and untreatable.
