ptsd Mental Health Intake

[donews]

I grabbed the most recent medical records when I was at the VAMC today.

It contained the information from my mental health intake consult (even tho the roi person said I was not allowed to have my metal health records with prior doctors consent.)

It has a section for diagnosis and reads as follows:

Axis I: Major Depression, r/o Depression secondary to dementia

Axis II: deferred

Axis III: see list above

Axis IV: no psychosocial stressors at this time

Axis V: 49-51

Does any of this make sense to anyone?

If so please help me understand.

She also stated somewhere in there that further evaluation was waranted to decided if I had a PTSD.

I had another appointment with a Mental Health since then, but those records were not included in this packet.

[tssnave]

Tbird - thanks to you and Pete for the emoticon info - here's my test B)

Donews - I'll stop with my technical question about smirky faces, please forgive the intrusion in your thread. I hope my other comments and the link to the GAF scale were helpful.

Thanks,

TS

Edited February 16, 2008 by tssnave

[donews]

Tbird - thanks to you and Pete for the emoticon info - here's my test B)

Donews - I'll stop with my technical question about smirky faces, please forgive the intrusion in your thread. I hope my other comments and the link to the GAF scale were helpful.

Thanks,

TS

Tssnave,

Yes! Your comments and the link are very helpful. Thank you !

[Chuck75]

Given that you have service connected the Heart disease, I'd suggest that you use that, since the C&P tied them together. Depending on a lot of "gotchas", you may be able to even get an earlier effective date for compensation. Actually, the evidence was already in the VA's hands, and they should have automatically connected the two when you were given SC for the Heart condition. They after all are interrelated, in that one can exacerbate the other.

I will be keeping you posted as I get more information / records.

One new question that I have is:

Should I go ahead and roll with the reopening the original Depression claim, seeing as the original C&P Examiner said it was Heart Disease related so they denied it, but now I won my 3 year battle for Service Connected for my Heart Diseases so I could claim it as secondary to the Heart Disease?

or

Should I wait a while and see if I get a PTSD thingy ma jiggy from the Mental Health people and then ask for depression as secondary to the PTSD instead of the HEart Disease?

Hope that all makes sense. Sometimes I don't make sense to myself.

[donews]

*UPDATE*

I saw the Mental Health Doc today.

She said I had a GAF of 35 at the most, said she probably will put it in as a 30 after she double checks a few things.

The great news is she said she would enter some stuff in the records in the computer to show that my depression was absolutely service connected. She said my Depression was manifested in service during my 2 tours in nam and that my service connected diabetes and service connected heart conditions aggrivated it. She also said that the Chronic Pain I suffer from service connected conditions is why I have had prolonged Major Depression.

I wonder what kinda rating a GAF of 30 -35 will be.

I am still waiting for the Mental Health records I requested.

The VAMC claims they mailed them the 19th, but I still have not seen them.

The Mental Health doc said she saw the release for the records so apparently someone has them and they havent been mailed yet.

[cowgirl]

Done, while the new GAF is there, are you already sc rated? or not? I am guessing that you are at least for mh and will need to ask for an increase. If you have other issues, time to get specific diagnosis statements connecting them to service for them as well. I got a statement from my va psych, released same day to me and submitted it via vso for increase. Best to ya and heres wishing for continued good health care. cg

*UPDATE*

I saw the Mental Health Doc today.

She said I had a GAF of 35 at the most, said she probably will put it in as a 30 after she double checks a few things.

The great news is she said she would enter some stuff in the records in the computer to show that my depression was absolutely service connected. She said my Depression was manifested in service during my 2 tours in nam and that my service connected diabetes and service connected heart conditions aggrivated it. She also said that the Chronic Pain I suffer from service connected conditions is why I have had prolonged Major Depression.

I wonder what kinda rating a GAF of 30 -35 will be.

I am still waiting for the Mental Health records I requested.

The VAMC claims they mailed them the 19th, but I still have not seen them.

The Mental Health doc said she saw the release for the records so apparently someone has them and they havent been mailed yet.

[donews]

Done, while the new GAF is there, are you already sc rated? or not? I am guessing that you are at least for mh and will need to ask for an increase. If you have other issues, time to get specific diagnosis statements connecting them to service for them as well. I got a statement from my va psych, released same day to me and submitted it via vso for increase. Best to ya and heres wishing for continued good health care. cg

No, I am not SC for any mental health issues -

They denied service connection for my Depression as Secondary to DMII.

They Claimed my Depression was soley due to my Heart Disease

What is MH that you mention in your post?

I am about to post an update as I finally got the records I requested from my Jan 08 mental health visit.