{"id":304,"date":"2011-10-17T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2015-04-28T11:17:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T11:17:54","slug":"depression-and-work-injuries-in-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/2011\/10\/articles\/psychological-injury\/depression-and-work-injuries-in-nevada\/","title":{"rendered":"Depression and Work Injuries in Nevada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a work injury in Nevada you are more likely to become depressed.&nbsp; If you do need a study to prove that there is a higher incidence of depression among workers with orthopedic injuries, you will be interested in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lajollalight.com\/2011\/10\/16\/\">linked article<\/a> from&nbsp; California psychologist Stephen Pfeiffer, Ph.D.,&nbsp;&nbsp;He cites a&nbsp;study reported in the Annals of General Psychiatry,&nbsp;Dr. Pfeiffer&nbsp;&nbsp;frequently writes about depression and other &nbsp;psychological conditions affecting California&#8217;s injured workers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unlike&nbsp;Dr. Pfeiffer, &nbsp;I am not a doctor.&nbsp; I am a lawyer who represents injured workers.&nbsp;&nbsp;The&nbsp;following are my Top Ten &nbsp;non-medical reasons&nbsp;injured workers tell me&nbsp; why they&nbsp;feel depressed after their job accident:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They&#8217;re&nbsp;hurt and in pain.&nbsp;&nbsp;That alone makes them unhappy.<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;A&nbsp;supervisor, or co-worker, or their adjuster&nbsp;acts as if they are faking their injury&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>They are worried about whether they will still have a job when they are well again..<\/li>\n<li>They are getting the run-around from whomever is supposed to be handling their claim.<\/li>\n<li>They&nbsp;know they aren&#8217;t&nbsp;getting good medical care, but don&#8217;t know what to do.<\/li>\n<li>Authorizations for medical care take forever.<\/li>\n<li>They are worried about how they will make a living if they can&#8217;t go back to their line of work.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;re financially behind on bills as a result of late compensation checks, no compensation checks, or inadequate compensation checks.<\/li>\n<li>They hear stories that they might get a settlement at the end of their claim, but have no idea what to expect, or whether to hope for anything.<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;They are worried about needing medical care in the future if the injury ever worsens after the claim is close.<\/li>\n<li>They know they need information, but don&#8217;t know who to trust for advice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Depression is serious.&nbsp; If&nbsp;you are feeling completely overwhelmed or suicidal, please tell your doctor immediately, or call 911 and&nbsp;ask for &nbsp;the suicide prevention hotline.&nbsp; While it can be difficult to obtain psychological treatment for depression on a worker&#8217;s compensation claim, it&nbsp; can be done under the right circumstances.&nbsp; More importantly, many&nbsp; feelings&nbsp;of helplessness go away once&nbsp;you are&nbsp;armed with knowledge about how the claims process actually works.&nbsp;&nbsp; If&nbsp;you&nbsp; feel too lousy to&nbsp;actually meet with a lawyer for a free consultation,&nbsp;at&nbsp;least help call for a free guide so that you have a better understanding of Nevada workers&#8217; compensation law.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a work injury in Nevada you are more likely to become depressed.&nbsp; If you do need a study to prove that there is a higher incidence of depression among workers with orthopedic injuries, you will be interested in the linked article from&nbsp; California psychologist Stephen Pfeiffer, Ph.D.,&nbsp;&nbsp;He cites a&nbsp;study reported in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/2011\/10\/articles\/psychological-injury\/depression-and-work-injuries-in-nevada\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Depression and Work Injuries in Nevada<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,24],"tags":[156,25,321,31,32],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-care","category-psychological-injury","tag-care","tag-depression","tag-medical-care","tag-psychological","tag-psychological-injury"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jhwlawoffice.com\/nevada-workers-comp-law-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}