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Thanks to all of you. I haven't been seeing a VA psychiatrist. I've been seeing the same private one for almost 20 years, so I don't want to start over with a new one. The reason I asked is that I don't want to file a claim likely to fail and then attract attention that might have them reduce my ratings. (Having been in the Service and worked for the Government I'm always concerned about something running off the rails.) From what you've written, I infer that you think I have a good chance and that I should submit the claim.

I'm rated 80% overall with 40% for mental disability. I have a strange employment record and I wonder if it's worth applying for TDIU I have been able to get jobs, but I have not been able keep them. My longest was 3 years, 6 months. In two cases I was laid off, in one case I was "encouraged" to resign, I left one after being injured in an auto accident, and in the last (2017 ) I was escorted under armed guard off the Air Force base on which I was working as a contractor. (I was accused of making threats ag'nst the life of the Pres'dent who was scheduled to be onboard during the day. I've left two words unspelled because I am now paranoid.) I left my last job in 2011 after being very badly injured in an auto accident. I was then on the fast track to being fired. I'd been warned that I was under a special "performance management" program (the last step before being let go), I was unable to return until recently and now I'm 65. I can get a letter from my psychiatrist explaining that he thinks my employment difficulties are primarily due to my SC mental disability Does this look like it will be a good application for a TDIU rating?