ptsd Does Anyone Feel The Way I Do Ptsd?

[yoggie2]

Please , understand first of all I really dig this message board and its not my intention to P.O anyone. I found out today why my increase for my injury and is being held up and was told they need my 201 file to see if I had any awards such as a Company log or a Purple Heart or a CIB or " just serve in the Gulf War 2" my thought was how dare the VA take this away from me I paid for it and still paying for it. here is part of the thred I wrote........

I filed for a increase been out of work for 2 years worked till I couldn't stand the pain any more now I'm crippled up, if I knew it would take so long I would have taken action lonnggg ago. I called the 1-800# today ask about some file type someone gave me and was informed after a year and a half, I'm waiting on my 201 file for the PTSD, looking for combat medals unit citations I got them but I sent them some pictures of my US ARMY Vacation experiences to Gulf war 1 and Restore Joke in Somalia anyways, YES THATS RIGHT! you too can stand up be shot at on a daily basis and enjoy an evening fire fight just about dinner time! and not be counted(just kidding about that last part). I hear now you have to be Purple Heart or have a CIB to even be considered or Just be a Gulf war 2 Vet. I personal Have friends never fired a shot and got the big prize the "CIB" just for being in a country where there was a war. I personally think this is way unfair specially to the guys who truly earned them, people getting purple hearts for accidents? And I have to prove I was in a hostile environment in Somalia. I can truly tell ya I can't sleep cant go to a 4 of July for over 15 or 16 years now I feel for these guys coming back its a life time deal you never forget or get over. Does that mean I'm untiled to a CIB, absolutely not. I am a soldier or was and we fought for each other, sorry getting carried away just feel as if I'm supposed to be so much more unholy and pay the same price anyways.......

This was a VA rep told me this today is this true I'l receive less care and not even consided unless I have a Purple Heart or a CIB or served in this fresh war? is blaspheming poop or the real deal?

Edited September 27, 2007 by yoggie2

[allan]

Hello Mountain tyme,

thank you for the reply.

I understand if PTSD is due to emotional trauma stresser letter is needed defining the event.

But, if the PTSD is due to physical trauma, than what.

Allan

Hello

Allan wrote:

Non Combat PTSD?

For Veterans who suffer from PTSD symptoms due to toxic or physical trauma, would submitting scientific evidence supporting the nexus, along with history of treatment for PTSD and exposures to toxins/trauma, be the same as a stressor letter?

Thanks for any replies.

Allan

Hello Allan...

A stressor letter....should contain in detail what event or exposure caused the emotional trauma in your life, that was life altering to you. Which would include "would submitting scientific evidence supporting the nexus, along with history of treatment for PTSD and exposures to toxins/trauma" in your letter. For example...a very good friend of mine that I was stationed with while in the AF worked for CE as a plumber...he use to have to work around toxic chemicals that were used as coolant for missles...at the time PPE, OSHA, MSDS were not implemented at that time now we are talking early 70's...to make a long story short some of his coworkers developed liver cancer which caused great stress to him due to his exposure...he became paranoid to even go near any of the chemical's...so yes your stressor letter can point out that being exposed to toxic chemicals and the result of your friends or commrades dying from that expose she can cause PTSD exp. if it was not treated early on...PTS is stress and aniexty and if not treated early on it will develop into PTSD (d as in disorder). Personnal Truma in a stressor letter involving Personnal Truma it could be based on sexual harrasement, emotional trauma from working in a protential dangerous area...you could be a dental hygenist and have the task of identifying bodies through dental records...everyone has a threshold of what there individual emotional level can handle...based on there life experiance or beliefs...it is not uncommon for non-combat vets to develop PTSD...no matter what war or conflict one has been exposed to...not knowing what the outcome will be...the feeling of impending doom triggers something in the mind...that can not process that nagging feeling..

So if you are going to file for PTSD as S/C...you need to write a letter explaining the events of exposure that has caused emotional harm to you.

Even in non combat situlations buddy statements is a plus because then can support the general feeling at that time...what they observed...they can attest to how YOU handled everyday events...if you were anixious...weepy...uptight...arugmentive...they can bring out that you changed...

keep in mind...as the VET you have to piece it together like a time line...so the VA can understand who, where, what, and when this was all going on.

hope this helps

MT

[robert51]

"A lot of Vets got or get their checks then disappear, Uncle will grab your check and stop sending them."

SSGMike.Ivy

That sounds illegal, let alone sidestepping "due process"...if the vet is still alive and entitled to receive his/her checks, even if he/she "disappeared" to live in another country as some vets do.

Can you cite some cases where this has happened?

-- John D.

well i moved to the philippines and of course the VA here is a plane ride away for me so i started to see a private doctor 2 times a month and a year goes by and the VA sends me a letter saying they are setting up a CP for me ... i am over 55 70% IU and PT so i had my doctor write up a report and i brought it with me and i was in and out .. but if i did not have a report or did not see a doctor i am pretty sure i would of be looking at,,,,,,,,,,,,,, oh your cured no need to keep sending you a check..

[SLEDGE]

Quote from Rocky,

"There are three things that are needed to be successful in a claim for PTSD and they are:

1) Verifiable Stressor Event

2) Diagnosis of PTSD

3) Nexus of service connection

If you have all three of these the VA cannot and will not deny your claim for PTSD.

You are not being singled out nor treated any differently than any other vet that is claiming service connected PTSD."

Rocky,

I've been at the court for seven years because the VA does not follow your plan/rules/opinion.

1) Verifiability is COMPLETELY up to the VA office types.

2) One VA quack can, and frequently does, nullify years of any diagnosis and treatment by the proper, qualified specialists. Quacks are with the VA because the VA hires quacks who do what their told, shoot down anyone that the RO wants to have shot down and do what they want with the rest based upon personal preferences. (Do no harm)

3) Refer to 1).

Vets that act like they have PTSD are probably acting just to get benefits??

Huh?

Any examiner that believes that BS has a severe personality disorder and should not be around sick people.

And that covers the RO too!

PTSD does not co-exist with parliamentary rules of behavior.

PTSD is a rewired brain, a mental aberration, a mental and physical disease.

Without the proper treatment regimen, which comes after a proper diagnosis, PTSD is bad news for anyone who comes into contact with it.

Just my opinion.

sledge

[yoggie2]

Sledge, WOW! waiting for someone to say it.

"PTSD is a rewired brain, a mental aberration, a mental and physical disease.

Without the proper treatment regimen, which comes after a proper diagnosis, PTSD is bad news for anyone who comes into contact with it". Fact! and the damage can't be undone, it belongs to you.

[mountain tyme]

Good Morning...

Allen wrote:

allan Posted Yesterday, 04:12 AM

Hello Mountain tyme,

thank you for the reply.

I understand if PTSD is due to emotional trauma stresser letter is needed defining the event.

But, if the PTSD is due to physical trauma, than what.

Allan

I don't know If I am understanding your question...are you asking do you need to write a stressor letter if your PTSD is caused due to a physical trauma...if that is the question...yes you would still need to supply a stressor letter outlining what caused your Trauma...for example: if you were injured due to a fire which caused disfiguration the source of the trauma would have been the fire..the result of the trauma would be the disfigureation.

the defination of a pyscial trauma is the following...

"Physical trauma refers to a physical injury. A trauma patient is someone who has suffered serious and life-threatening physical injury potentially resulting in secondary complications such as shock, respiratory failure and death"

one needs to understand that PTSD is the medical term to describe the serverity of a conditon that was caused by an event so earth shaking in one's life that there mind could no longer process it.

As

Sledge stated earlier...""PTSD is a rewired brain, a mental aberration, a mental and physical disease"

Veterans who have been involved in accidents or incurred a physical trauma due to a conflict of war and substained a physical trauma which cused disfigurement regardless of the cause, have experienced a series of assaults on the mind as well as on the body that present extraordinary challenges to human resilience

The “trauma” for the survivor is complex. The injurious event is traumatic, but there is also trauma stemming from treatment that can be excruciatingly painful, likened by many to torture. The physical changes in the survivor’s body are permanent reminders of the fear, sadness and pain they have endured. The reactions of others to their changed bodies presents survivors with the additional trauma of feeling rejected, isolated, unworthy and humiliated.

Persons who have been physically “normal” and rendered disfigured by traumatic insult, no matter how young or old, must recreate themselves. They must discover new ways of moving their changed bodies in order to accomplish tasks that once they completed easily. They must find new identities to fit new body images. Whether for young children or for adults, this process is complex and arduous.

I hope this answered your question...I get confused sometimes...but then again what is normal!!!

God Speed

MT