Janice S. ESTOK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kenneth S. APFEL, Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant-Appellee

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• noting that a court cannot “substitute its judgment for that of the Commissioner by reconsidering facts, reweighing evidence, resolving conflicts in evidence, or deciding questions of credibility.”
• noting that, whatever the diagnosis, the claimant must provide sufficient evidence of actual disability
• noting that, whatever the diagnosis, the claimant must provide sufficient evidence of actual disability
• emphasizing that the claimant had to establish actual disability during the insured period
• “It is not enough to show that she had received a diagnosis . . . since [the impairment] is not always (indeed, not usually) disabling.”
• “It is not enough to show that she had received a diagnosis ... since [the impairment] is not always (indeed, not usually) disabling.”

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