Subvet416

Theresa, Thank you for putting out the straight information about working with 100% schedular, even for PTSD or other "mental illness" . https://www.hadit.com/can-100-percent-disabled-veteran-work/ How times have changed! When I tried to pass this information along in 2009 to members on the old Yuku Veterans Benefits Network site, they banned me from the forum. https://vetsbenefits.net/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=34421&p=368079#p368079 Who would want to promote the culture of disability over the motivation of our comrades in arms to live a productive life? Keep up the good work! Subvet416

It's criminal that the VA still prescribes potassium chloride when safe chelated (bound up in a protein rather than a salt) forms of the mineral have been available for years. Medical doctors do this precisely because potassium chloride is dangerous and therefore controlled by prescription. They have no control over chelated potassium supplements which can be purchased openly anywhere vitamins and minerals are sold. The same scam operates with the drug Lithium carbonate, used to treat bipolar disorder. Most people with these mood disorders have a potassium deficiency. Potassium is essential and found in every cell of the body. Lithium is chemically similar, but a toxin, and so can only be prescribed and monitored by an MD psychiatrist. To regain your health, follow the money until you see where it leads, then move out in the opposite direction. See my post on how I recovered with orthomolecular therapy. Good Luck!

John, In 1982, my DAV Service Officer told me that if the VA ever tried to reduce my rating because of my recovery with orthomolecular therapy, the DAV would not rest until the VA made this therapy available to all veterans. If this had come to pass, I gladly would have given up all my "benefits" and would have been happy to do oil changes down in the pit at a Jiffy Lube for the rest of my life if that was the only work I could get. For years, I have carried on a regular correspondence with Joy Ilem at DAV National Legislative Headquarters on the subject of the non-availability of orthomolecular therapy at the VA. There may be some developments in this area soon. Biological Psychiatry is intellectually and morally bankrupt, a pseudo-science that will collapse under the weight of its own lies. The distribution of psychiatric drugs has impaired our military, put our veterans lives at risk and poluted the "Seed Corps" of young Americans in the school systems, from which our future warriors must spring.

Pete, This has nothing to do with claims, it is general mental health consumer information. I received 100% P&T in 1980, after six very unpleasant years of drug "treatment", and it took me two more years to learn about orthomolecular therapy and finally recover. Given the choice, I would take recovery over the monthly payments and psychiatric drugs any day, no matter what it cost me. As it turned out, after I recovered I was never called in for re-evaluation by either the VA or SSD. I presented myself on a number of occasions, but there was no interest in non-drug therapy. So if you have a service-connected pension for a "mental condition" now, you have nothing to fear financially from making a recovery with alternative treatment. If you make more than $900 per month from employment or self-employment, your SSD can be stopped, but you can deduct the cost of orthomolecular therapy, chiropractic care and other alternatives from your earnings as "reasonable and neccessary work related expenses". This way, you can earn the cost of your therapy and it will not affect SSD or the $900 per month you can earn on top of it.

Sorry, The subject should read "Just what defines mental illness..." I could not find any way to edit the post after it went up. Is there such a feature? Thanks Subvet416

The man in this video, John Breeding, is a PHD psychologist with a private practice in Texas. A great deal of cutting-edge information about "mental disorders" is coming out of Texas now. Texas was the the first state to implement wide-spread drugging of children in the schools based on the theory that one in five Americans is seriously "mentally ill". It was called the TMAP program. It has failed, and worse, caused countless children to suffer needlessly, but TMAP has also spurred a revolution in thinking about just what is and what is not normal behavior, emotion, and reaction to stress and abuse.

Purple, It's your response to the stressors that will change. These triggers always around and surely you must know that your response to them is different on different days and at different times of the day or night. One thing orthomolecular therapy does is build up your adrenal system, which is the source fuel of all the other hormones. If your adrenals are burned out, they will produce too much of the "fight or flight" hormone, adrenochrome. Adrenochrome is very trippy stuff, allmost identical to mescaline. You emotional response to the stressor depends on many factors and can be hard to predict. It could be a euphoric, manic high, an angry rage, a paranoid terror, a deep depression. Certain types of highs can be pleasurable and develop into addictive risk-taking behaviors. Other responses can be very unpleasant and cause one to withdraw and avoid all stress, even healthy stress. When the adrenals are healthy, they produce a good supply of pure epinepherine and you have adequate physical and emotional energy to deal with whatever comes your way. You accept everthing that happens, good or bad, as a challenge, like a warrior, not as a blessing or a curse, like a slave. Orthomolecular therapy, based on tissue mineral analysis (from a hair sample) will also reveal any toxic elements you might have in your system, or imbalances of essential elements that can cause emotional problems. A diet and supplement program is then designed for your particular needs and you are retested at intervals to make adjustments as you progress. I mentioned Analytical Research Labs, which I have used since 1982, http://www.arltma.com Read the articles on the site about adrenal burnout and see if it doesn't describe what you feel. Here's another world-famous orthomolecular clinic Pfeiffer Treatment Center http://www.hriptc.org/index.php

That's a healthy attitude, Mike. "Trust no one!", that's the useful dictum we learned in the war, but many forgot once we returned. One good way to tell who is and who is not being truthful is to follow the money.

Here's a true story that may help you understand why effective non-drug treatments are kept from the public, and conditions like "mental illness" and PTSD are declared incurable. It took the advent of WWII for the US Army to step in and insist that basic nutrients be added to soldiers' food to prevent Pellagra, which had been a scourge among the troops in WWI. Today, the Army is stepping in again with its own research project into the cause, treatment and prevention of PTSD. Many of the discoveries of the Orthomolecular Pioneers are being eveluated and incorporated. http://history.nih.gov/exhibits/goldberger/

Thank you for providing this forum for the free flow of ideas and information! I was caught up in the mental health system for eight years, mostly at the VA, from 1974 to 1982. Those of us who received psychiatric treatment prior to the development of the PTSD diagnosis were usually labeled as schizophrenic, bi-polar, etc. These labels stuck, even after it was confirmed that stress could cause the same symptoms. After doing several years of research on my own, I learned about Orthomolecular Therapy based on tissue mineral analysis (a hair sample), and obtained it for myself at my own expense. In a few months, I regained my physical and mental health and was able to make the difficult withdrawal from psychiatric drugs. My VA doctor was furious about my use of this alternative therapy. http://www.arltma.com He refused to examine any of my tissue mineral analysis tests or my diet and supplement program and would not even say the word "orthomolecular", calling it "The Hoffer thing". He wrote for the VA record that I had had a "spontaneous remission" and never mentioned my use of this alternative technology. Then he fired me as a patient. Last July (2008), this same doctor, now a very big shot in the world of psychiatry, and about to be confirmed as president of the American Psychiatric Association, was called before the US Senate to answer charges of possible corruption for taking millions of unreported dollars from a drug company while doing government-funded research. For more information about orthomolecular therapy, see http://www.orthomed.org and search the term "adrenochrome theory of schizophrenia" on Google and investigate the the work of Drs. Linus Pauling (Two Nobel Prizes), Abram Hoffer, Carl Pfeiffer, and Paul Eck. Since 1982, just by following simple dietary and supplement guidelines, I have enjoyed excellent physical and emotional health and have never had cause to use any medications again, not even an aspirin. I'd be happy to share more of my experience with anyone interested. I have written a narrative of my history and have been keeping a log of my efforts to bring Orthomolecular Therapy to the attention of the VA and the DOD. Send an e-mail to me and I will send you back a copy.