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wm36
Hi All,
First thanks to all, especially the elders for all of the valuable information posted here. It has helped me a great deal.
I have read a number of posts and used the info for my benefit.
I was a Marine from 1998-2003. I suffer from Major Depression and PTSD.
I filed a claim for benefits shortly after service--2004 and got denied and gave up. I was in such a bad place that I didn't have the will or energy to fight the decision. After several hospitalizations and getting so depressed and anxious that I was no longer working at one point gave up on ever leaving my house and upon advice from the Women's clinic at my Va (West Haven, Connecticut) I refiled in 2006.
After an unfavorable decision at the RO level, I appealed to BVA, waited there for three years, and final got a remand in Nov 2011.
I've made several mistakes: like not having m C-file: upon receiving it I realized that My medical records were incomplete. It was as if someone took the last year of my service and erased it from the record. Literally, the last notation was for june 2002, not to give into conspiracy thoughts I hope that this was a clerical error of some sort (however there is a part of me that truly believes they were removed or disappeared on purpose because I was perfectly fit until the last year of my problems when I was diagnosed with Addison's, and depression and these notations were all included in the copy I had.)
I then let the file leave the RO without giving them the copies I had of the records noting that my depression started and was treated while I was in service. I listened to my DAV service officer who claimed that my file went straight to Washington and there was nothing he could do. NOTE: my file never left the RO for a year and I was within my time limit to submit new evidence.
I never had a hearing and was never sent for a C&P examination during this odyssey.
Fast forward to the present.
I have plenty of questions on what happens now.
I got a remand in Nov and now am waiting for the AMC-- which according to all the posts is going to be another ridiculously long wait.
But this post was to introduce myself. Thanks in advance for helping me with my host of forthcoming questions and I am so glad this site exists for info, to celebrate vicariously those that win, to state my hobby has become reading the posts, to laugh at the rants--I have a few in me like HOW is it that when I informed the VA that I was divorced they were able to open the claim for dependency, get a notification to me that I owed them money, resolve my second dependent paperwork for my daughter, close the claim and start collection in 18 days and my claim for benefits has been languishing for 6 years, I understand it is more complex to decide and rate disability claims but is it 597 times (rough calculation in how long Ive been waiting) more complex?
Mollymarine in limbo...
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