Cnp Exam Results, Please Opinions

[ddm39142002navy]

This is Docs Input on me in the CNP please tell me what rating if any you think I will get based on this data.

Question VA Rating purpose the doc put these symptoms as they apply

Depressed Mood

Anxiety

Suspiciousness

Chronic Sleep Impairment

Mild Memory loss i.e. names, directions or recent events

Flattened affect

Impaired Judgment

Disturbance of motivation and mood

Question Relationships

Difficulty in adapting to stressful circumstances including work

Inability to establish and maintain effective relationships

Neglect of Hygiene

Inability to perform activities in daily living including minimal personal hymens

Question which of the following best summarizes the veteran’s level of occupational and social impairment with regards to all mental diagnoses? (They said check one this is what the Doc checked)

Occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity.

Question is the Veteran Capable of managing his own finances

Yes he is

More of Docs input

Veterans meets requirements fro Adjustment disorder with depressed mood and treats it by Drinking etc

The Doc then stated that I believe that his Adjustment disorder with depressed mood is at least as likely as not (fifty fifty probability) caused by or is a result of his Tinnitus.

[USMC5811]

Just a guess on my part (very very new to all this) specifically because of the Occupational and Social Impairment with reduced reliability and productivity.....being checked .....seems to fall into the 50% range rating forumula, although there are some symptoms listed in the 30%- 70% range as well. I'm wondering if when this occurs (different symptoms in different precentages of the General Rating Formula for Mental Disorders) does the GAF score (that the C&P examiner records) come into the decision somewhere, even though the GAF is/can be fluid (can changes like ones blood pressure).

Hope VA does right by you - I'm sure someone with alot more knowledge will be along shortly........

General Rating Formula for Mental Disorders:

Occupational and social impairment with occasional decrease in work

efficiency and intermittent periods of inability to perform occupational

tasks (although generally functioning satisfactorily, with routine

behavior, self-care, and conversation normal), due to such symptoms

as: depressed mood, anxiety, suspiciousness, panic attacks (weekly or

less often), chronic sleep impairment, mild memory loss (such as

forgetting names, directions, recent events) ...................................................... 30

Occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and

productivity due to such symptoms as: flattened affect; circumstantial,

circumlocutory, or stereotyped speech; panic attacks more than once

a week; difficulty in understanding complex commands; impairment

of short- and long-term memory (e.g., retention of only highly learned

material, forgetting to complete tasks); impaired judgment; impaired

abstract thinking; disturbances of motivation and mood; difficulty in

establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships ............... 50

Occupational and social impairment, with deficiencies in most areas,

such as work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking, or mood,

due to such symptoms as: suicidal ideation; obsessional rituals

which interfere with routine activities; speech intermittently illogical,

obscure, or irrelevant; near-continuous panic or depression affecting

the ability to function independently, appropriately and effectively;

impaired impulse control (such as unprovoked irritability with periods

of violence); spatial disorientation; neglect of personal appearance and

hygiene; difficulty in adapting to stressful circumstances (including

work or a worklike setting); inability to establish and maintain

effective relationships ........................................................................................ 70