John N. LEIDLER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

In this case we revisit our decision in Singletary v. Bowen, 798 F.2d 818 (5th Cir.1986), in which we considered the criteria for assessing whether a person afflicted by a severe mental illness can obtain Social Security benefits. This case, like Single-tary, requires a remand for re-examination by the Secretary.

Leidler applied for Social Security disability insurance benefits on October 10, 1985, alleging a commencement date of March 1, 1983, because of paranoid schizophrenia. The AU’s decision 1 acknowledges, as it must, that his severe psychiatric condition…