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I am soooo pissed off. So I go to the VA to get my records and take them and my updated meds to SSI for my case. I read them and so freakin mad I dont know what to do.

I am in weekly therapy, thety are now making to go to group and have to se a phyciatrist. From my last session I see

Diagnosis Tracecs or symptoms of ptsd

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stressors; mild

How in the Hel# is this going to win me a disability claim. this lady has me on all kind of meds they are making me come week after week to therapy, I can barely leave home, cant think act speak hell half of the time dont want to live and from what I read I fell she doesnot event believe me.

What the F^%$!

If my symptoms and stressors or mild I dont know what is severe.. Do I have to kill myself for her to think they are severe. I mean How can she help me get better when she is acting like nothing happen to me. What happened to me was not mild at all and my symptoms have my house bound.

I dont know what the hell to do think fell i mean nothing. I was so pissed I just felt like driving my car into the embankment. I mean I just give up. Why try to get help how can these people help me.

the phycologist in her notes she puts what we discuss in therapy but when I read it its like she said this and that.. she did give me a strong nexus but dag i mean she put i have concerns of being albe to work but she never said I CANT WORK.

SO I AM NOT SURE WHAT TO DO HERE.

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GIVING UP ON LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Claim 1 & 2 /w pension Filed 10/23/2009 CnPs- Dec Phase 10/1/2010 Notification 10/12/2010 Closed 10/15/2010

Claim 3 Filed June 23,10 CNPs- Jan 2011 Dec Phase- Mar 2011 Notification- May 2011 Closed My 2011 (CLAIM DENIED)

Claim 4 Filed June 13,11 cnps-Na Dec Phase- Aug 2011 Notification- ...

Voc Rehab Claim Filed July 2011 Orientation-17 Aug 2011 Found Entitled- 17 Aug 2011 Classes paid- 19 Aug 2011 First Stipen Check- ...

***Under Ga VARO from 2009 - Until Present***

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Keep talking to those Shrinks and express how you feel in strong terms. Don't give up! Express your outrage, but don't threaten them or scare them to the extent they call the VA goon squad. It is a fine line, but keep walking up to it and don't let the VA off the hook.

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Ok so today I get about 5 calls from the Va Its the doctor that wrote the statments in the records. My phsycologist also.. Wanted me to call. I am suppose to have an appointment with the one of them tomorrow. I send her the letter friday saying I will no long come for treatment due to the issues here in the message. She asked me to come in and talk to her about it. The other doctor called but did not leave a particular message. I think they will gang up on me tomorrow. i am not sure what I want to to do. To be hones I dont know what I am doing, feeling or thinking. This has been a rollercoaster ride that has been made worse because now that I am in therapy I have to deal with my stressors all the freaking time when before though i was symptomatic at least I did not have to think them, feel them out in the open in such a mannter. Then I am on all these meds and I am not even sure what the hell its suppose to be doing. I am just feeling like I am even more off edge than before and I dont know what I am suppose to be doing. I just dont know.

I need help, advise anything. I feel on the edge again just like friday.

IMHOP, go to the meeting with doc's I do not think they will gang up on you. Go and let it all hang out but do not get threatening!! All you need now is to be led to the loony VA bin. Take a step back and breath. Think before you speak. It will work out. Lots of great people are here for moral support. We have all been there at one time with the VA. Hang in there and DO NOT MISS an appointment with the doctors!!

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Keep talking to those Shrinks and express how you feel in strong terms. Don't give up! Express your outrage, but don't threaten them or scare them to the extent they call the VA goon squad. It is a fine line, but keep walking up to it and don't let the VA off the hook.

I am getting prepared to go there today. My apt is at 11.30 My avoidance symptoms are in overdrive and I really dont wnat to leave home but I will somehow.

I will report what happens when I return. I can say I am wayyy overwhelmed with trying to do therapy, cliaims and then the regular I have to deal with. I dont see where things are going but I am going to stay on the path.

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Claim 1 & 2 /w pension Filed 10/23/2009 CnPs- Dec Phase 10/1/2010 Notification 10/12/2010 Closed 10/15/2010

Claim 3 Filed June 23,10 CNPs- Jan 2011 Dec Phase- Mar 2011 Notification- May 2011 Closed My 2011 (CLAIM DENIED)

Claim 4 Filed June 13,11 cnps-Na Dec Phase- Aug 2011 Notification- ...

Voc Rehab Claim Filed July 2011 Orientation-17 Aug 2011 Found Entitled- 17 Aug 2011 Classes paid- 19 Aug 2011 First Stipen Check- ...

***Under Ga VARO from 2009 - Until Present***

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I am getting prepared to go there today. My apt is at 11.30 My avoidance symptoms are in overdrive and I really don't want to leave home but I will somehow.

Many vets can relate to your feelings...

Good luck.

You are not alone...

"it shall be remembered"...

"We few"

"We happy few"

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I am getting prepared to go there today. My apt is at 11.30 My avoidance symptoms are in overdrive and I really dont wnat to leave home but I will somehow.

I will report what happens when I return. I can say I am wayyy overwhelmed with trying to do therapy, cliaims and then the regular I have to deal with. I dont see where things are going but I am going to stay on the path.

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Good luck today!

Pat

I wonder if I would have all the medical conditions that I have now if I had never joined the Army. I'm pretty sure the answer would probably be no. When I look around and see others my age who were not in the service, most of them look pretty healthy.

Do you think all the employees of the VA really understand that it is ONLY because we served that their positions even exist?

'67-'68 1st Cav, '69-'70 101st Abn

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If you are sick, unemployed, and dealing with a VA claim it is overwhelming. I would say that if your claim has a way to go get a lawyer if you can. What Hadit can provide is a strategy for dealing with the VA claims process. We are not talking about justice or anything like that. We are talking about winning a claim. You start at step one and you just go donw the line. It takes time and sometimes it takes money. Above all it takes knowledge which you can get here. Your claim never ends until the day you die, and then your spouse picks it up one way or the other.

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