ptsd I Need Your Help And Opinion

[Cm Burns]

I wrote this below:

Due to the symptoms of my illness I can no longer work, because of these issues and my preoccupation with intrusive thoughts concerning my experiences and fear of being hurt I am completely housebound. Intrusive thoughts have been present since the incident and have grown in intensity, despite my past attempts to self medicate with alcohol and now with food. These experiences have progressively become worse over the past year inhibiting my ability to functions.<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break">

<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break">This is an insert from a self report I am preparing for my ssi and va claim. Can you please tell me what you guys think and if its appropriate in my explanation of my ptsd.

Thnx

[john999]

I would describe my symptoms in detail. You are making a statement that you can't work due to your symptoms. What symptoms?

[Cm Burns]

I would describe my symptoms in detail. You are making a statement that you can't work due to your symptoms. What symptoms?

I did do that at another point in the report I am sorry. I am just not sure that sounded right. that particular part. I should have stated that. Sorry

[Hoppy]

Social Security should send you a form that requires that you explain in detail your daily activities. They will also request that you have someone else who is familiar with your daily activities file out a similar form. A general statement that you are completely housebound makes it sound like you cannot even get out of the house for meals. If this is true have the person who is providing your meals fillout a statement..

I am helping a current veteran who was rated at 50% when he should have been rated at 100%. He is so depressed and suspiciuos of VA doctors that he will only tell them enough to get meds. The doctors had no idea that he has not worked for three years. The doctors said that he was goal oriented. The only goal he has is to live longer than his dog. He will not work, seek medical treatment and I had to force him to start a claims process. The doctors had no idea of the severity of the symptoms.

As such i went to his C&P exam to tell the examiner what I have observed. The C&P examiner would not take my statement. We are now submitiing my statement and his statement to the records administrator for addition to the medical file. I made him write a statement.

Use the statement the SSA gives you or write your own. Submit both your statement and any observers statements into your current medical records. This is especially necessary if the VA treating doctors are under reporting your symptoms.

[Cm Burns]

Social Security should send you a form that requires that you explain in detail your daily activities. They will also request that you have someone else who is familiar with your daily activities file out a similar form. A general statement that you are completely housebound makes it sound like you cannot even get out of the house for meals. If this is true have the person who is providing your meals fillout a statement..

I am helping a current veteran who was rated at 50% when he should have been rated at 100%. He is so depressed and suspiciuos of VA doctors that he will only tell them enough to get meds. The doctors had no idea that he has not worked for three years. The doctors said that he was goal oriented. The only goal he has is to live longer than his dog. He will not work, seek medical treatment and I had to force him to start a claims process. The doctors had no idea of the severity of the symptoms.

As such i went to his C&P exam to tell the examiner what I have observed. The C&P examiner would not take my statement. We are now submitiing my statement and his statement to the records administrator for addition to the medical file. I made him write a statement.

Use the statement the SSA gives you or write your own. Submit both your statement and any observers statements into your current medical records. This is especially necessary if the VA treating doctors are under reporting your symptoms.

I got and returned the doc to the ssi about my daily activities. They have not sent me one for anyone else. I took in my self report today that was very detailed as well. I looked at my records and my phyciatrist is grossly under stated my condition. I am so pissed about it the next time i am in there i feel like slapping her azz. (sorry just really pissed)

I will look out for the other doc though.

[Hoppy]

Make sure the VA clinicians are recording accurate reports of your mood, goals and thought processes. Also, consider that if you have just started interacting with the clinicians that they do not make a diagnosis in one day. I often see reports with deferred diagnoses and provisional diagnoses. Many clinicians require about two months of treatment before they write a summary which includes Axis one diagnoses.

Also consider that they perceive many diagnoses as having the ability to have remissions. They do not assume that the level of symptoms remain constant in all psychiatric diagnoses. They do believe in remissions.

Regulations in Effect After November 7, 1996

When evaluating a mental disorder, consideration shall be

given to the frequency, severity, and duration of psychiatric

symptoms, the length of remissions, and the Veteran's

capacity for adjustment during periods of remission. The

evaluation will be based on all the evidence of record that

bears on occupational and social impairment rather than

solely on the examiner's assessment of the level of

disability at the moment of the examination. It is the

responsibility of the rating specialist to interpret

examination reports in the light of the whole recorded

history, reconciling the various reports into a consistent

picture so that the current rating may accurately reflect the

elements of disability present.