ptsd Psychiatric Qtc Examination

[cannoncocker]

This is a very specific question or can be answered in general either being of great help to me.

I am scheduled for a QTC SC Chronic Anxiety in Asheville, NC and I don't really know a more appropriate place to post this question.

As we all know everybody is biased on any given subject even before the facts are heard/sight unseen. So my question is if anyone of us has been to a psychiatric exam in Asheville with the QTC psychiatric examiner/contractor and if so are they fair arbiters for ptsd or any other SC psychological problems. I mean do they already have their minds made up? If that were the case is there anything I could do to counter that?

I know it's almost ridiculus to ask this without the examiners name but I wouldn't want somebody putting my ID Info out here on the internet so I would not do that to them. Although i presume they only have one for that area so you would know automatically who it was.

Thank you for any pointers and info

Too, any pointers on how to approach an exam like that would be really helpful since the VA psychologist is the only exam like that I have been to.

[john999]

Cannon Cocker

Hoppy is putting on a clinic for you with his answers. He sounds like a lawyer/doctor. You are getting your money's worth. If your records are silent on treatment or diagnosis for a mental disorder there are only two I know of that can be SC'ed years late. That would be depression secondary to a SC physical medical condition, or PTSD with verified stressor. Panic disorder was and is probably one of the most misdiagnosed disorders. I think it is closely related to PTSD, but there may not be just one stressor. It may be a life time of stressors that break under the last straw like the camel's back. If the last straw is some event in the military then they get to pay. The military is a great place to produce an acute phase of panic since they force you into situations the panic disorder person would avoid at all costs otherwise.

[broncovet]

Most of us have "good days" and bad days. When they ask how you are..dont lie..just tell them about Thursday..

"Thursday, I was about to go off the deep end...it did not go well at all...I was very angry about...."

In other words never lie to them..just simply tell them about your worst day, not your best day..today may be your best day, so tell them about the bad one.

JMHO...It is ok to have planned out in your head which day you are going to talk to your C and P examiner about..again, dont make stuff up..just tell them about the bad days. Its kind of like the news..it isnt newsworthy for them to talk about nothing happening today..but it is newsworthy about the car accident you were in where you wrecked your car and almost died last week.