tdiu Tdiu / Never Approved Right Away Regardless Of Who U R

[Coopsta]

I have submitted EVERYTHING you can imagine to VA in support my claim ....up to and including letters from my former company commader who attested to how much i struggled in boot and how i was singled out .. yet still i was denied....i'd love to REALLY UNLOAD on this site as to how i feel about the way VA does their buisness, but i won't , have you ever heard the term " it's not what you know it's who you know" ....let me just say that is precisely verbatum.

I'm not here for a bitch session and quite frankly if their are a chosen few who think i am well stop reading this post now and do yourself a favor and MOVE ON ....i am sick and tired of fighting the system( over 5 yrs now...( i dont care about eople fighting for over 20 yrs we're not talking about them we're talking about me at the moment ) , VA ESPECIALLY , yeah yeah yeah i know all about how it's back logged with thousands of files ....granted i know thats true .....hire more people or have people do volunteer work.....

Anyway perhaps i'm asking for to much, although i seriously doubt it, i just want my just due like the rest of do....about a year ago i got my congressman involved and would you believe from the time i called him ad he got invlved to the time i got the letter of denial of course it took 2 and a 1/2 weeks ....wow ....can you imagine that ......that got on the ball then ddnt they ...amazing when they have to move they do.....wouldn't want to piss off the boys on the hill...........listen i'm not trying to be difficult .....and maybe i have waaay to much time on my hands ...granted i am damn sure i do.....the fighting is wiping me out.....i have help from some damn good people who have been around the block a few times....my VSO here in Massachusetts .....i'll leave it at that ...he is uselss ....he's just another goverment employee collecting a $$$ check ....period nothing more then that.....he spends more time on vacation then he does in his office and i told him that ....if i get the chance i'll tell him again ....he never returns my calls and only when he does its weeks later and i forget why i called him to begin with.SSDI ...i've been on for about 5yrs now .....i dont work and i cant either i have adhd/ depression, Bi-polar,major depression,anger,on all kinds meds...

Coop

[purple]

airborne18-

not always true. my IU rating is for PTSD and it was granted right away, very quickly.

[airborne18]

purple,

You are right it is not always true, but from what I see in the postings, mental health TDIU's have a high percentage rate of denial and delay.

Yours probably had support from your treating doc at the VA, which is the critical factor for success.

[purple]

Yes, my VA docs wrote letters on my behalf, everyone should ask their VA docs for such letters before paying big bucks for IMOs. Can't hurt to ask.

[john999]

The thing with mental health IU is that it is subjective. When you go for your C&P exam if you have a single physical thing wrong with you the doctor may say that is the reason you can't work. The doctor may say you have a personality disorder, and that is why you can't work. It is not like someone with a broken neck who can't lift his head. I was told by my VA shrink that it usually goes 30%, 50% and then 70% IU. It takes a few years to get there if you are not catatonic. Purple, I think if you got IU that fast you probably should have gotten 100% schedular. Your case must have been so obvious that even the VA could not deny it, and that is saying something. I don't mean to offend you by saying this. When I got out of the Army I could not even leave the house. The VA did not even consider IU. I was lucky to get 10% because they said I had a personality disorder, and just a little case of schizophrenia, depression and anxiety. In my day if you were not a complete basket case you did not get 100% or IU for a mental condition back in the 70's. PTSD was considered a form of bad conduct. PTSD vets got drunk and took drugs and went awol so they were bad. Many got kicked right out on their asses with OTH discharges. If they did get honorable discharge the VA had no treatment for them except to say they had a personality disorder.

[purple]

I'm not offended at all. I've read the rating requirement for 100% and I did not meet that; but I easily met the 70% and all of my docs agreed. I also had a lengthy & recent hospitalization history--actual several hospitalizations.