eddingtonm

Thank you all for your responses. I received his death certificate and the first cause of death showed overdose and listed all the meds he used. The second cause showed bipolar/PTSD so that should help me with my DIC since his only service connected disability was Bipolar II. Hopefully the VA will not fight too hard to say that his service connected disability did not contribute to his his cause of death since the coroner plainly listed it as a contributing factor. Now it is just a waiting game for it to process. I hate that I lost my husband to suicide and then have to fight this battle too, there should be a better way.

My husband was 100% permanent and Total for five yeas with a service connected disability of Bi polar type 2. He had PTSD but he was never compensated for it. It was only in his records. He lost the fight with his demons and took his own life on February 17, 2017. I have the toxocololgy report and the autopsy showing suicide as the cause of death. I have talked with the KY dept of VA affairs which is the service organization that Sean used to help him get his disability approved. However the person here in Glasgow KY is not the same person who helped him several years ago. The gentleman I talked to is very negative. He has all but told me that he is not sure I will get approved for DIC because Sean used a blood pressure medicene to kill himself with and the VA could just as likely say that blood pressure meds are not prescribed for Bi=Polar so since it was not connected to his service connected condition then it did not cause his death. The only problem is Sean never had high blood pressure and the meds were just for tremors from the lithium he took. Besides he had 18,000 mg of it in his system. Regardless, I would say that suicide is a bi-product of Bi-polar no matter how he did it? I dont know if I should just file a claim on my own and get away from this negative nelly or drive up to Louisville to the Regional office and get better help from the people up there. There is a KDVA office there too which might give me better advice? All I know is that I dont yet have the death certificate, only the autoposy report and this guy keeps telling me to wait for that too.When just last week he told me all I had to have was the toxocology report to get started and we could always add things later. I dont know what to do and I have an 14, 11, 8. 5 to support on social security only and that doesnt go to far.