Well I filed for a HLR and had my informal conference this morning. She seemed very receptive, some of the items I brought up were the examiner stated I missed 2 appointments and had not received any care and was not on any medication. This is flat out wrong and my records show it, I missed the first one (becuase I've become very forgetful) the 2nd one was reschuled by the VA to 5 days later which I made and that is when the Psychiatrist put me on Sertraline. The fact that the examiner asked about the incident, since I knew I was about to get emotional I reached for the box of tissues and she literally pulled it away from me and said she didn't want any details (how can you properly evaluate if you don't know what happened) this caused me to basically shut down. I also challenged her credentials as according to the State of Texas she is nothing more than a Licensed Therapist even though the C&P has her down as a Graduate Psychologist which does not fall under the VA's requirement for an initial PTSD review. I brought up numerous things we discussed that she left out of the exam like how I find myself driving and wondering if it would be easier to just run into a tree or bridge. I would never do this to my family but the thought is there and it scares me. She completely left that out, left out how I have to use GPS to get around. There were 2 claims 1 for PTSD and 1 for Depression (not sure where depression came in as I did not file that). Examiner said she was not got to interview me for depression since it was part of PTSD, She does mentionI reported symptoms of depression she just said it wasn't bein evaluted today (so she says I"m depressed but doesn't include that in the C&P. Obviously gave no weight to my wifes Lay Letter, she makes know mention of my lack of feelings when my son was killed in a car accident or how I no longer feel. No love no remorse, just anger it seems. She didn't mention anything about the anrgry outbursts or how I forget words for simple everyday things and occaisionally family member names. Or the difficulites I'm having at work.
She seemed very interested and caring, she was surprised when I told her about the tissues being pulled away and the examiner not wanting details. Also she was concerned these things were in my record but there is not mention of thenm. So we shall see how it goes.
I have to say when I got the results of 10% for Chronic Sleep impairment I was rather shocked and all I could really do was just laugh because it was so assinine.