this is from wiki but if you can find it in the SDM-6 (which is coming out) you might be able to prove your insanity.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th edition Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) outlines specific criteria for use in the diagnosis of this disorder. These include the presence of sexually arousing fantasies, behaviors or urges that involve some kind of sexual activity with a prepubescent child (age 13 or younger, though onset of puberty may vary) for six months or more, and that the subject has acted on these urges or suffers from distress as a result of having these feelings. The criteria also indicate that the subject should be 16 or older and that the child or children they fantasize about are at least five years younger than them, though ongoing sexual relationships between a 12–13 year old and a late adolescent are advised to be excluded. A diagnosis is further specified by the sex of the children the person is attracted to, if the impulses or acts are limited to incest, and if the attraction is "exclusive" or "nonexclusive".[1]

BUT... they may throw you in a secured mental institution if they fear your a real danger to society.

I'd like to clarify something since I'd been accused of telling people they can get disability JUST for being RSO. It is not that simple.

I tell people collecting disability is all about HOW you argue. Being an RSO meets the LEGAL definition of a disability, but you don't just go in and say "Hi, I'm a sex offender so I can't work."

Being an RSO comes with lots of problems-- the stress and depression of social ostracism, the anxiety of being targeted by vigilante scum, the paranoia that neighbors are stalking you, the anger from being used for social and legal experiments, etc. That is what you discuss when you apply.

Sounds like a roadmap to the money to me... LOL

Well said Oncefallen .

Hey oncefallen you need to elaborate more about how to argue for disability as an RSO and just how to argue your case for disability period. Do a tutorial or something because I could most definitely use the advice. I was denied twice before getting a lawyer but was denied again a third time even with a lawyer. I'm not going after disability because I'm an RSO, or because i'm lazy and want to sponge off the state (however being on the registry has become quite disabling for me in many ways - physical health problems caused by all the stress and worry, the stress and worry and depression it's self, and other psychological and emotional issues.) I actually had applied for disability before I ever got out of prison. And the reason I applied is because of how screwed up I was and am as a result of psych meds and the neglect and abuse I experienced in prison. I had never been depressed or suicidal in my life and had never needed psych meds for anything until I went to prison. I had been in college shortly before going to prison and other than the sexual issues that landed me in prison I was a pretty smart, functional, capable, normal person. With all the stress and negativity and lack of sleep associated with prison life I let them convince me to take an antidepressant. I began having problems with the medication and they said "it's ok we'll just balance it out with this stuff." So they added more meds to the mix. I still couldn't sleep so they gave me something they said was for sleeping problems. Turned out the stuff they said was for sleeping problems was an antipsychotic medication called Seroquill.( the modern equivalent of Thorazine). It definitely made me sleep. Practically had me knocked out all the time. And in case your not aware, when you give someone who has no psychosis anti-psychotic meds it can actually create psychosis. Which is what it did. I was so out of it and out of touch I didn't know what was what. So yet more medications where given to try to address the problems all the other meds had caused up to that point. And they would switch me around from one thing to another to try to get things right. I was essentially a human guinea pig. I later found out they had been horribly negligent in giving me medications I never should have been on and they had given me combinations of meds that should never be combined. Once they even gave me some one else's medication and I was so out of it I didn't even notice until I had a horrible reaction to it. My eye's were rolling back in my head, my mind was like a broken record, and I felt like I was having a cross between an acid trip and a fully awake siezure. I began pounding on the cell door to get help but was ignored because other inmates would pound on doors just to be stupid so they thought I was just goofing off too. At a point of giving up I was leaning pressed against the door tapping my head very lightly against the glass out of frustration and desperation. A nurse happened to walk in and saw me tapping my head against the glass and she told the guards to four point me. I was drug out of my cell by the goon squad and stripped naked and taken to an isolation cell and handcuffed to a concrete slab for 8 hours all while still experiencing the reaction from those meds. While being strapped to the slab I was kicked and slapped and had my head slammed against the concrete while being called a cho-mo and a pedophile. It is supposed to be procedure for events like this to be video taped to prevent abuse and document things. But everyone looked the other way. It was also procedure when a person is four pointed to allow them up to use the restroom and to come in and un-cuff an arm or leg one at a time to do range of motion every half hour. Instead I was left there untended for 8 hours. Once un-cuffed I was left in the cell naked for several more hours. I wasn't suicidal but this is worse than what they do to some one who is in prison. As you can imagine I was pretty pissed off. Several days later when they took me to see the deputy warden for review I told him about the whole ordeal and the abuse by the guards and he kept rolling his eyes and discrediting everything I said. I was cuffed behind my back but I was so pissed off that I grabbed a hold of the back of the chair I was in and threw it at him. I spent almost 8 months in the hole and my health continued to deteriorate. I went from a fairly healthy 180 pounds down to a sickly 130 pounds in a matter of a few months, was experiencing serious memory and cognitive impairment, was weak and tired and atrophied and just all around in a bad state of disrepair. I kept begging for medical attention month after month and finally convinced them to run some tests. They discovered that I had a severe vitamin B12 deficiency and was anemic and generally deficient in all my water soluble vitamins. They had to begin me on supplements and give me B12 shots for 2 weeks. But things were never right again after all of this and I continued to have problems with the medications and with my health in general and with my memory and cognitive abilities. Essentially I went from being a smart, capable person with an excellent mind and memory before prison to being a lobotomized, highly un-functional, dysfunctional, retard after prison. In the condition I am in now I most certainly am not capable of finding or maintaining gainful employment. I would just like to find out what the hell is wrong with me and if possible get my health back and my brain working right again so that I can work and that is why I'm seeking disability status - For the money needed to get some medical attention and possibly figure out all these health issues.

I'm not an expert, I can't train people on the right things to say. I can only say keep trying, my guess is with the economy on a downswing.

In my case, I've had problems with depression, anxiety and BPD with a few suicide attempts over the years, long before my prison sentence, but I also think part of it is pure luck, I had a very sympathetic evaluator and screener.

The longer you have documented problems, the more likely you can qualify.

But that's the KEY, you have to be DOCUMENTED. You can't just say you have depression, you have to be evaluated and have had treatment for it.