ptsd Ptsd C-P Review Exam

[bergin c/o]

have a ptsd c-p exam tomorrow .i already am 10percent and they said this is a yearly review. my service rep said to make notes on what is going on how i am feeling and bring that with me to the exam . he said this would better explain my position and help me not to get tied up in there question

[bergin c/o]

you can see the upper torso on the moniter . he said more exams would be done that way . did not like . but don't know how well you can judge ptsd by it

[Philip Rogers]

There's a lot an examiner can see, sense, feel, etc., by being there w/you, such as body language, nervousness, etc.. It just sounds like another way the VA is trying to cut costs. Nothing the VA ever does is to "help" us. jmo

pr

[hedgey]

My last VA psychiatrist was located in Louisianna, and I'm in NY. I would be shown into a small office and she was on a not-very-big TV flat screen. I'd had to do therapy with a social worker that way before, also VA. We're upstate, in a rural location, and they have a really hard time finding doctors & therapists who want to live up here, so we have to tele-commute with them if we don't want to travel down to the city. The city, the driving there... very stressful.

But the tele-therapy was stressful too. Impossible to feel connected to them, to feel like they were seeing me at all. I just stared at my feet like I would if it was in-person, so I guess they got familiar with the top of my head.

I have a VA therapist here now, since they opened a rural health office, and the psychiatrist drives up once a week to see patients. They're both the best I and my DH have ever had.

[carlie]

I, personally, don't see how that exam can be considered valid. I'm sure somewhere down the road it'll be tested in the Court. jmo

pr

Ditto

[bergin c/o]

went over the exam with my vso . he put in paperwork for an increase. hopefully i won't get sent for another c- p . that they can use this one