MrCrow

Please tell me where you got this C&P

Apply to the 6 week intake program at Salem, VA. I had a similar problem EVEN AFTER A S-ATTEMPT!! Eventually I just drove to the Emergency Room and said "I feel like I might make another attempt. Make me an inpatient." They kept me in a windowless room for THREE DAYS waiting for a bed to open up, and then finally said they had secured an application from the Salem Virginia facility and I was approved to go.

Dr Schnitzer was my person too. She charged me $400!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for a 30 min conversation. Now, her DBQ was fairly good, not 100% accurate, but the rater ended up telling me that it was easily a 70% or 100% except that she messed up the date, and she should write it more clearly or just give me another exam, free of charge. What followed was pure insanity, and I should know! I've attempted suicide because of my PTSD, so I know crazy! I emailed her the situation, and she responded "oh my god! That's so terrible! Of course I'll fix it, I'll call you tomorrow" No call. A couple of days later I email her "I hope you're ok, nothing bad happened?" And she replies "who is this? Did I promise to do something for you?" And I'm thinking uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, if you use that scroll function you'll see our email thread below and everything we've ever wrote to each other. I try to remind her and she says "oh, I thought you were someone else, no no, I can't help you with that. Go get help somewhere else, don't call me!!!" She ended up calling ME and YELLING at me to stop asking for her to clarify or to help me. So I asked my lawyer "what the xxxx?" And he said he'd go speak to her. He called her on the phone and she told him "woah, hugeee misunderstanding, of course I'll update it. Come in tomorrow at 9am." At 9 he rolls into the parking lot and she told him "I thought you were talking about something else, no, it would definitely be illegal to alter something I already filled out." He asked about a fresh new exam and she said "I don't think I want to do any more for you." Some weird stuff in that lady's head, the therapist needs a therapist!!! The VA sent me to a third exam, and the interviewer was too nice for my own good. He was a former air force guy, Dr. Ethridge. He listened to me for just a minute or two and was like "woah woah woahhhh, I can't BELIEVE they denied you. Of COURSE you have PTSD! You are clearly in need, I will FIX this sir, don't you worry. You've been on 150 combat patrols, returned fire, covered in blood, this is open and shut." He started walking me to the door and I was like "I've only gotten about halfway through my symptoms" and he just shushed me "ah, I see, yep, ok, memory loss, ideation, sure sure," and I said "but see this stupid checkbox list here, that's ALL the VA looks at," "no no, I'm going to write PAGES describing your ideation, those boxes are just for things I DON'T feel like describing in detail." And he walked me out. I was rated 50%, because even though he heroically wrote about two pages of stuff regarding my suicide attempt, he didn't check the xxxxxxx box. And they said "if you can just take this back to his office to fix, I'll rate you 100% right now" And once again, I went back and he basically said that's not how the questionnaire was written, and that's not his fault "I checked 19 boxes, that should be plenty. Since I work for QTC it would be inappropriate for me to see you again. I'm satisfied with my eval." But I saved the worst for last - my very first exam. Someone with "Orenstein." This lady listened to me open up and cry about my feelings, then gave me an "are you faking it" scantron, which she says I failed. She said she gave it to me because she could find no PTSD diagnosis in my records, and so in her notes she says, that, combined with the scantron, made her decide not to send any other info to the VA because it convinced her I was lying. She said I had so many symptoms of such a high degree, that with no previous diagnosis, I was probably exaggerating, or suffering from some mental issue not related to PTSD. I had been diagnosed with PTSD TWICE before I saw her, BY my VA psychiatrist and my private therapist, and the paperwork was right in the VA system. Who knows how she didn't find it, but I printed it out and showed it to the rater at Dunn. He said "yeahhhhh, that's gonna screw you forever. All the doctors AFTER she saw you have read this and copied it into their exam, because it's standard etiquette not to disagree with an earlier assessment. You've basically been labeled a liar from now on." And I handed him my (now FOUR) diagnoses of PTSD and ideation and said "ok. so. fix it?" And he just said "I'm not a doctor, there's nothing I can do." At the moment, I'm afraid I've been to every damn C&P qualified doctor in North Carolina, and the rater keeps telling me "just go find someone certified to fill out a DBQ for you and I'll rate you. It should be super easy, open and shut."