ptsd My Journey

[Memory235]

Hey all.

I was discharged in 2008 from the US Army. I suffered through a lot of things in service. truth be told i dont remeber much.

Army docs think I had a psychotic break from reality on AD. I have delusions sometimes i think there was a conspiracy to get rid of me etc etc. As soon as I was discharged i spent two months in a VAMC psych ward. I have been dx'd with many different things most notably ptsd, schizophrenia and GAD. Anyway, this post is long overdue as i promised to let everyone how i got 100 % when i posed a question on wearing dress greens to a funeral. so, during my first hospitalization someone at the va came up to the ward and filed a claim for me. ok six months later nada youre nsc buddy. ok. then i become homeless due to drug use and mental stuff. i end up in a homeless veteran shelter they get me into hud vash and what not. i get some help then i meet my girlfriend we get a place and things become stable. then another friend dies i relapse get hospitalized then they approve for 10%. basically i kept going to the psych ward and finally a ptsd program got 100% temp then about 6 months later i got 100% tdiu. all in all i think it took 2-2 1/2 years. i got ss in that time too but they kinda counteract each other if you know what i mean. i might as well have not applied for ss.

thanks,

crazy dude

Edited January 26, 2014 by Memory235

[killemall]

Stick with the girlfriend.

[Memory235]

i have we been together for 4 years

[Notorious Kelly]

Congratulations on your success and ride life the best you can figure.

That's all any of us do anyway.

[Proudvet]

Just take it one day at a time. That's all you can do.

Seems like the girlfriend is doing good things for you.

Keep hanging there my friend.

[Berta]

Thanks for sharing all that with us.

This concerns me:

“As soon as I was discharged i spent two months in a VAMC psych ward.”

“so, during my first hospitalization someone at the va came up to the ward and filed a claim for me. ok six months later nada youre nsc buddy. ok. “

Any psychosis is a chronic presumptive disability if manifested at least at 10% after discharge.

The regulation is in this topic here:

and this:

“i got ss in that time too but they kinda counteract each other if you know what i mean. i might as well have not applied for ss. “

Do you mean SSI ,based on income, and not SSDI based on work history SSA credits and total disability?

I think you might have a basis for CUE claim regarding that older denial,if that denial was never appealed and then the 100% award came from a re opened claim.

You did GOOD....some vets would have accepted the denial and never tried again.