What impact do you think my MST/PTSD claim will have because I am not on any meds for anxiety or depression. The only medication I was on was Xanax for my anxiety and panic attacks and my neurologist told me to stop taking my Xanax because I have such severe memory and concentration issues. I am on a very low dose which he knows and that I needed to take the meds because it is the only thing to this point that helps my panic attacks or recover more quickly from one. I am not on any depression meds. because I will not take them due to having suicidal thoughts when I tried them two times in my past. I did think of killing myself...I had and "urge" to kill myself and that was the scariest thing to fight off for almost two days until my meds wore off. I vowed I would never take those meds again (or any other class of the meds) I'd rather have my anxiety and depression than to kill myself and my children have to live with that the rest of their lives.
Now that I am filing for MST/PTSD I see the DBQ has many questions surrounding medications and it looks like in my situation the yes and no answers does not allow for the explanation above and my claim may be rejected despite my many issues I deal with daily that I am now in therapy for.
Any advice on what to do to address this preemptively for my claim??
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What impact do you think my MST/PTSD claim will have because I am not on any meds for anxiety or depression. The only medication I was on was Xanax for my anxiety and panic attacks and my neurologist told me to stop taking my Xanax because I have such severe memory and concentration issues. I am on a very low dose which he knows and that I needed to take the meds because it is the only thing to this point that helps my panic attacks or recover more quickly from one. I am not on any depression meds. because I will not take them due to having suicidal thoughts when I tried them two times in my past. I did think of killing myself...I had and "urge" to kill myself and that was the scariest thing to fight off for almost two days until my meds wore off. I vowed I would never take those meds again (or any other class of the meds) I'd rather have my anxiety and depression than to kill myself and my children have to live with that the rest of their lives.
Now that I am filing for MST/PTSD I see the DBQ has many questions surrounding medications and it looks like in my situation the yes and no answers does not allow for the explanation above and my claim may be rejected despite my many issues I deal with daily that I am now in therapy for.
Any advice on what to do to address this preemptively for my claim??
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YOUR TREATMENT for PTSD/MST is something you discuss with your Doctor, and you 2 decide on what treatment is best. VA does not say, "You have to be taking 200 milligrams of Xanax, 500 Miligrams
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