ptsd Is It Me Or Does Most People Get Burnt Out Helping?

[Testvet]

I haven't really showed my azz on this board or if I have it has been a really long time since I did I forgot, but I probably did a few years ago, I have had a stroke so I gorget a lot of stuff easily, I don't have to buy new books because my favorite writes W.E.B Griffin, Clive Clussler etc six months after I read the book or series of books I can go back and pick them up and read them again and it's like the first time all over again (saves money on books rofl)

But I know I have memory issues, I have to write a diray basically to remember when and who I saw on what dates and what the conversation was if I need to have a back up memory. I am not like that retired Senator that write down everything all day long everyday down to what pair of socks he wore and what color the suit was.

But I find myself getting pizzed at peep when they ask a question and then get smart towards me with the reply they want answers like we have crystal balls and of course none of us do, no one can "predict when a VARO will do anything" but they leave out a lot of important stuff like their claim they are waiting on they seem to think a claim with 10 or 15 problems should be worked in the same time as a claim with one issue, and what difference should that make, excuse me? Is it me or am I the stupid one?

I get tired of even trying to respond anymore they don't want to hear any type of the fact that they may be causing the problems (writing IRIS every week does not help speed the VA up) or they tell you they haven't called their VSO but down thread they admit they have been calling their VSO but they don't tell them anything, thats nothing new, in 7 years I have never had a SO be able to tell me anything other than I should play lets make a deal or I should drop my claim and be grateful for what I already have, and that I am just being greedy because I expected I a higher PTSD rating than 50% and didn't I know most vets would love to be rated at 50% and that by my filing a NOD for more I was depriving another veteran from getting their claim handled, BS, SO's in my opinion are lazy and would prefer that no one ever calls them and expect action. They close their offices 2 days a week to play catch up and 6 months later they still haven;t filed appeals WTF and they claim they are overworked, they need to try and start working in most cases.

Maybe I should just walk away from the boards and stop trying to help, I don't mind answering questions for new people but I really hate ignorant lying people....am I the only one that gets this way?

[rentalguy1]

Yeah...everyone's probably noticed, but I'm done for a while. I'll eventually start assisting other vets again, but not right now.

[Rockhound]

No, you are not the only one Testvet: My only claim to fame in helping other Vets are for my undeciferable post at times. My history in helping is by post, at times, an answer to someone elses question or reading a correction of something I posted being wrong, and of course, telling anyone I talk to, that I got my help with my claim from hadit and a fairly good and conscious VSO, although my VSO is more of a rallying point, since I do all the leg work and they do and file all the paperwork.

When it comes to reading books, I'm as avid as most readers, and I to have memory issues in that I can go back and read an previously read book and enjoy it as if I hadn't read it before, which in a lot of cases I find was what I did. the ADD that is spoken about, for me at least, is actually AOADD (adult onset attention deficit disorder) due to a medical conditon or for some it might be due to the regemine of medications they take.

My ability to concentrate on something is only slightly longer than my ability to remember someones name I just met and if it isn't in the forefront of my thinking process or in front of me, it is only as long as my mind does not become fatigued or my eye sight begins to strain from the effort of reading something that becomes jumbled in a cloud of, where was I at on the page I was reading, or I got to just lie down so my mind and body can catch up with me feeling.

If I want to do any research on my claim, I must do it first, before I even think of visiting any of the webb sites or forums I like to frequent or I have to put it off for later that day or even until the next day, although this site is at the top of my to do lists, so if I am not doing anything else that day, I come here, because I feel I am not alone and can see and tell that their are many others who have similiar issues or have similiar thoughts and similiar problems associated with the DVA.

NO!!! you are not alone. Take a break, sit back in a cumffy chair and read one of your many books that you have and don't remember reading before. LoL :D

Best wishes for a speedy recovery from your burn out. :P :D B)

Rockhound Rider B)

[Philip Rogers]

Mike - fortunately, it beats the other option! I hate looking at my skin, thru these magnifying type glasses. Looks like lizard skin! But I'm still kickin', which I can be thankful for, given AO. Love ya bro!

pr

Mike - Thanks for clarifying(see what happens when one assumes) and sorry but I'll never get over WJC, whether it be VN or the cigar issue. I partially blame him for today's youth's attitude, towards oral sex. Sex is sex but he's a lwayer and you know what that entails. Maybe I only wish he'd been around in the '50s!!! Then maybe I wouldn't have been a 21 yo virgin, extremely thankful, to a Japanese "lady," in 1966, for her favours!!! rofl Still love ya and next time lunch is on you, since you finally got your "well deserved" big win!!! Sorry if the elders edit this but I don't regret Tokyo, at all!!!

yea that assume word we all know the break down of it rofl most of the time it's me

my growing up period was Korea 75/76 you should not send young males off to strange lands with money in their pockets and young women looking to take advantage of them I read somewhere that the military has now made this illegal in Korea I wonder how they enforce that law?

Yea I agree I can't even look at a cigar the same way anymore rofl but our utes were rotten before the definition of "it" was famous between MTV and rap it has been downhill ever since our parents told us rock and roll was the devils work and radios were the size of a refrigerator

bottom line is Flip we are just getting OLD and there ain't no stopping it

[dougbo1943]

I don't post much, but I read visit this site almost every day. My mind will not let me constrate much.

I have learned a lot from this site and it has taken me from 10% to 40%. I am not done as I was lowballed still.

I just want to say I love this site and it has helped me. Please keep up the good work

Gunny

[Testvet]

Flip come on down and float around the pool I just bob around it beats the hell out of looking at my skin rofl I still remember when I went to the VA pool and they said due to the severity of my heart problems I could only use their pool twice a week for 5 minutes WTF it takes longer than that to drive there...so the house we bought has a pool I use it all I want and the VA raters had the nerve to tell me my heart has gotten better and is only 60% disabling now I wonder when all those fixes happened? SSD still doesn't know about my PTSD and the only thing they disabled me for was my 25% ejection fraction and 2 failed bypasses I am glad that rater cured me though because the VA surgeons refused to operate on me I might die on them and ruin their stats I am a medicate until I die but what matter does it make if I fight them it is not going to raise my SMC S any higher a second 60% or a 100% added to my 100% PTSD still adds up to SMC S but they are still idiots.....

[Pete53]

Raters cure or misdiagnose. Its a gift