Eliot Samulon addressed west coast Social Security disability lawyers (“the Ninth Circuit Conference”) on January 28, 2017 regarding Social Security’s new rules for evaluating whether mental health conditions are considered disabling. Knowing these complex new rules will be very helpful to claimants with mental problems. For example, Social Security is now considering records from licensed clinical social workers, psychiatric nurse practitioners and similar sources, where previously it only considered records from M.D.s and Ph.D. psychologists. Also, it has added eating disorders and adult ADHD as mental conditions which could be disabling.