Personality Disorders: The Schoemabbs's Case

Primary Diagnosis: Affective (mood) disorder.

Secondary Diagnosis: Personality disorders.

22-year-old male alleged “Schoemabbs’s kyphosis,” binocular vision disorder, psychosis.
Reporting health issues: Reported stiffness with sitting and pain after standing for a prolonged time. Did not drive because of visual problems. Issues with memory, concentration, understanding and following directions. Had difficulty working with others, did not understand how to use money.
Under testing for other mental conditions. Needed help with daily tasks; however, also reported that he was independent with personal care and did not have any difficulties doing chores inside/outside the house. He indicated that performed daily “barn chores” in the morning and evening, did his laundry, used the

“It took him a lot longer to complete task and sometimes tasks would not get done so we had to have another employee finish the task.” Poor hygiene. At times claimant would stare at his hands and would “stare off into space for long periods of time.”

Comments: This was a Reconsideration (Disability Hearing Unit) case. There was significant improvement in the claimant’s physical condition. However, it seemed that his mental issues limited his ability to perform a competitive job on a regular basis.

Notes: Scheuermann's disease, or Scheuermann's kyphosis, is a condition in which the normal round back in the upper spine (called a kyphosis) is increased. Most people with Scheuermann's disease will have an increased round back (e.g. a hunchback or hump back) but no pain.
The name of this condition comes from Scheuermann, the person who in 1921 described changes in the vertebral endplates and disc space that can occur during development and lead to kyphosis, or round back deformity of the thoracic spine (upper