mrkman123

I agree completely. You're either SC or your not. No more grey area.

The 30+ PDF files you have in separate files are a lot.  I just looked for the occupational and social impairment portion which is on PDF #2 and that wording sounds like a PTSD rating closest to 70%.
Here are the ratings for PTSD:
0% – A mental condition had been formally diagnosed, but symptoms are not severe enough either to interfere with occupational and social functioning or to require continuous medication.
10% – Occupational and social impairment due to mild or transient symptoms which decrease work efficiency and ability to perform occupational tasks only during periods of significant stress, or; symptoms controlled by continuous medication.
30% – Occupational and social impairment with occasional decrease in work efficiency and intermittent periods of inability to perform tasks (although generally functioning satisfactorily, with routine behavior, self-care, and conversation normal), due to such symptoms as: depressed mood, anxiety, suspiciousness, panic attacks (weekly or less often), chronic sleep impairment, mild memory loss (such as forgetting names, directions, recent events).
50% – Occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity due to such symptoms as: flattened affect; circumstantial, circumlocutory, or stereotyped speech (meaning one sounds like they are on speed but they are not. This is a natural and physical outward expression of a chemical imbalance in your brain. An aspect that might appear most frequent in those with TIB ); panic attacks more than once a week; difficulty in understanding complex commands; impairment of short-and long term memory (e.g., retention of only highly learned material, forgetting to complete tasks); impaired judgment; impaired abstract thinking; disturbances of motivation and mood; difficulty in establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships. (This goes beyond hard to get along with).
70% – Occupational and social impairment, with deficiencies in most areas, such as work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking, or mood, due to such symptoms as: suicidal ideation; obsession rituals which interfere with routine activities; speech intermittently illogical, obscure, or irrelevant; near-continuous panic or depression affecting the ability to function independently, appropriately and effectively; impaired impulse control (such as unprovoked irritability with periods of violence); spatial disorientation; neglect of personal appearance and hygiene; difficulty in adapting to stressful circumstances (including work or a work like setting); inability to establish and maintain effective relationships.
100% – Total occupational and social impairment, due to such symptoms as: gross impairment of thought processes or communication; persistent delusions or hallucinations; grossly inappropriate behavior; persistent danger of hurting self or others; intermittent inability to perform activities of daily living (including maintenance of minimal personal hygiene); disorientation to time or place; memory loss for names of close relatives, own occupation, or own name.

Mrkman123,
I'm sorry you are going through this frustration. The separate files take a while to download.  I believe you'll get more people to help if they're able to look at things all together.  Are you able to access the C&P on Myheathlyvet.com?  You could then copy and paste the pertinent info here (after taking out your name, SSN, etc...).  
I'm unsure the relavant parts people need to see, could anyone advise him on that?  

Very Wow! 
Congrats to you.
And to TBird, a proper salute, Ma'am.
 

Thank you.   This means all your effort in the past 20 years is worth it.  Im not sure this is the first, nor do I know whether it will be the last.  But it is surely important to some. Here it is:
  
 
Hello everyone,
First of all, I wanted to thank everyone for the great advice and comments.  But most importantly, I wanted to mention a life saving chat session I had with "TBird"  on this website early this month.  I chatted with TBird at a time of "extreme crisis"  I was having.  She made me feel comfortable, calmed me down, chatted with me about my needs and then provided me with both the VA Crisis Line chat URL and phone number.  We chatted for quite a while, but she encouraged me to contact the Crisis people right away.
Minutes after my online chat with  TBird, I online chatted with the VA Crisis people for about ten or twenty minutes.  They asked for my phone number which provided and the chat person stayed online with me until I was I immediately called on my cell phone by a Crisis line operator. After a about five minutes of discussion, I was asked if wanted to be transported by a family member, an ambulance,  police car, VA shuttle or any other means to the Mather Hospital BH-ICU unit, located in Sacramento California.  I remember her name as Susan and she asked to speak with my wife after I woke her up, to confirm I had transportation.   She explained that it was imperative that I see someone as soon as possible and that she would call in fifteen minutes to ensure I was on my way.  She did in fact call as me and my wife were leaving the house.

I called Dr. Seeger at my local VA ti make sure she concurred with this treatment plan... which she immediately said yes....go right away.
After reaching Mather VA hospital, I was immediately admitted to the BH-ICU (Behavioral Health ICU - Lock Down unit) for extreme PTSD-MTS with a friendly police escort.  I received round the clock
EXPERT CARE for seven full days.  After six days I wrote and submitted a development plan for myself which asked for permission to return home which was approved after multiple interviews and meetings.  I just returned home about six hours ago, listed as high risk PTSD, however low risk S, I now which was not the certainly not the case when admitted.  
The VA BH-ICU doctors have submitted applications for me to go to long term specific PTSD-MST facilities in Virginia, Kentucky, Denver and several other out of state programs for long term care. With treatment duration's ranging from thirty days to six months, depending on progress.  The VA will also be flying me to and from the treatment center ultimately chosen which should happen in about two weeks.
I am so tired right now,m but I wanted to mention a few things that need to be said.
#1) TBird, thank you...you saved my life.

Results are hereby posted for your reading pleasure/enjoyment.  Any comments, suggestions, or opinions would surely be appreciated in this 23, year Battle!!! 
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I would hire an attorney because you may have claim dating back to
1992 that  you may have a chance at winning. Looks like you had evidence
they miss in their decision. Get all medical records & c-file. You had no mental
problem before service and if so why would they hire you for a job you did. Never discuss
problem you had before service with VA it will get use against you to denie your claim.
After rereading your post you have an attorney get another medical opinion from an
outside source or get my attorney who will get one for you. RU

Those SSA records could be critical to your claim.
Make sure you follow up on the VA's attempt to get them.
When I read stuff like this, it angers me that the ROs, on remand ,have to  do what they didnt do right in the first place....
and you are right...that statement as to Personality disorder BS and PTSD was the back breaking straw....to include the fact that the service stressors were well documented.
You have a GOOD lawyer..... and this also shows that, unlike the crap we put up with at the regional level,
the BVA can read.
"How long" is the question no one can really answer.
This was a 2008 decision on appeal .....prior to the July  2010 PTSD regulations.
I wonder if the Aug 2010 C & P doc was trying to base their opinion to comply  with the July 2010 PTSD regulations....in order to deny...but I also feel your lawyer has already determined if that error had been made.
 
I agree with what RUREADY said.....There could possibly be a CUE or 3.156 issue in the 1992 denial.
The outcome of your current claim will reveal that potential and I sure feel your lawyer will jump on that potential, if it is there.
The BVA focused a lot on the 1992 denial as well.
BVA gives what I call legal 'hints', sometimes...nuanced statements that might have future strong bearing on the results of any remanded appeal.
A hint I received from the BVA in maybe 1997,1998 ( my appeal had been rendered moot because I had won that claim under a different theory at the RO level in 1997) contained a hint that,in my case many years later ,cost the VA mucho dinero.
Oddly enough I had a denial from my RO of part of that situation,which I didnt appeal.The Regional Counsel caught it years later (it contained CUE) and  that too was resolved.
This remand ,to me ,is like a steak and lobster dinner..... maybe Many steak and lobster dinners.....
Thanks for pursuing this all these years and never giving up!