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ptsd Va Psychiatrist Dx Of My Husband - Triggers
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hedgey
DH finally got his Progress notes, at least up to the first week of October.
His VA psychiatrist has Dx'd him with Chronic PTSD, as well as OCD and Panic Disorder, and that it's definitely a result of his in-service (Line of Duty, we have the paper to prove it!) MVA where he nearly burned to death.
Here are the Axis's:
Axis I - Post traumatic Stress Disorder, Depressive Disorder NOS
Axis II - Personality Disorder NOS, with dependent traits
Axis III - See past medical history
Axis IV - Stressors include chronic pain stemming from severe burns and chronic psychiatric illness.
Axis V - GAF of 50.
Now I know that Personality Disorder can be very bad, even though we have the military entrance physical report that says he's fit as a fiddle and sound in the noggin.
I think the Personality Disorder has to do with his OCD and the fact that he always wants me in with him during sessions. He clutches my hand the whole time, while he cries, and while he's keeping himself from jumping up and running out the door.
In her notes she writes very frequently about the accident and how his fear and rage and PTSD are clearly from that time, from the long healing process, from the awful years of being a disfigured young man. If anyone were to ask her, she'd give a perfect nexus, just because it's so damn easy to connect these dots.
His VA therapist says the same, chronic PTSD due to trauma in service, Panic disorder, anxiety disorder, agoraphobia, etc.
But won't the VA look at the Axis notes first and probably stop there?
Oh, the VA psychiatrist wants him to see a neuropsychologist because she thinks he has TBI from rolling around in a vehicle with no shoulder harness or headrests... ahhh the 70's!! Think that might help his cause? He's scared stiff about this idea, he's afraid they'll find out he's really crazy and he's only just getting used to the idea of PTSD
Please, any thoughts or comments? Thanks!
Let us be kind, one to another, for we are each of us together in our pain.
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