I file a claim for PTSD and was awarded 50%. But the C & P showed I should have been higher.
The Beck Anxiety Index score was 56 severe
Depression Inventory II was 49 severe
Global Assessment of Functioning was 41 serious symptoms
I don't want to put the whole C & P on here but I have some issues and they were noted.
I didn't have help with the claim so everything else I claimed was denied.
I didn't think the rating was fair and was looking at the possibility of it being 70% (but oh well)
The VA's reviewers stated although the GAF score stated a 70%-100% It wasn't warranted because I didn't have enough anger issues or my panic attacks wasn't continuous and I didn't show signs of family problems.
I am constantly in a panic state and my first wife left me due to anger issues after returning from the gulf.
Since then I had been having a lot of issues relating to my health. Especially chronic pain all over, headaches, lot's of mental issues. I often think I see apparition's of three dead burnt bodies coming at me.
I went through group counseling for over a year and had an individual counselor for a while. My psychiatrist felt I was suicidal and placed me on the Suicide Watch List.
Back in late 2013 I was hurting so bad and emotionally distraught, I thought these same three burnt up bodies were coming for me so I decided at that point I couldn't stand it any longer. I tried to commit SUICIDE. I took a hands full of medication I thought would put me out.
As a result I ended up in the mental ward at the VA for 4 days. After It wasn't a month after I was released I sliced my wrist trying to kill myself for the second time.
I was referred to mental health and after the first appointment I haven't went back. I feel as if I can't trust them. All the psychiatric doctors at the VA seen my conditions were getting worse but they did nothing for me. Hell they gave me more pills to stop the pain and depression, anxiety and so forth. But they stopped the psychosis pill that help me stop seeing apparitions. They just sat back and let me try and kill myself.
My wife found I could do a Notice of Disagreement so she filled it out and I sent it in.
What should I do now and HOW?
BTW my wife locks up all the medications in the house and gives me them as prescribed to ensure I take them and not try all at once.
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BlastDaddy
I need some help.
I file a claim for PTSD and was awarded 50%. But the C & P showed I should have been higher.
The Beck Anxiety Index score was 56 severe
Depression Inventory II was 49 severe
Global Assessment of Functioning was 41 serious symptoms
I don't want to put the whole C & P on here but I have some issues and they were noted.
I didn't have help with the claim so everything else I claimed was denied.
I didn't think the rating was fair and was looking at the possibility of it being 70% (but oh well)
The VA's reviewers stated although the GAF score stated a 70%-100% It wasn't warranted because I didn't have enough anger issues or my panic attacks wasn't continuous and I didn't show signs of family problems.
I am constantly in a panic state and my first wife left me due to anger issues after returning from the gulf.
Since then I had been having a lot of issues relating to my health. Especially chronic pain all over, headaches, lot's of mental issues. I often think I see apparition's of three dead burnt bodies coming at me.
I went through group counseling for over a year and had an individual counselor for a while. My psychiatrist felt I was suicidal and placed me on the Suicide Watch List.
Back in late 2013 I was hurting so bad and emotionally distraught, I thought these same three burnt up bodies were coming for me so I decided at that point I couldn't stand it any longer. I tried to commit SUICIDE. I took a hands full of medication I thought would put me out.
As a result I ended up in the mental ward at the VA for 4 days. After It wasn't a month after I was released I sliced my wrist trying to kill myself for the second time.
I was referred to mental health and after the first appointment I haven't went back. I feel as if I can't trust them. All the psychiatric doctors at the VA seen my conditions were getting worse but they did nothing for me. Hell they gave me more pills to stop the pain and depression, anxiety and so forth. But they stopped the psychosis pill that help me stop seeing apparitions. They just sat back and let me try and kill myself.
My wife found I could do a Notice of Disagreement so she filled it out and I sent it in.
What should I do now and HOW?
BTW my wife locks up all the medications in the house and gives me them as prescribed to ensure I take them and not try all at once.
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I definitely believe you should have been given a higher rating, particularly due to this statement: Severe Functional Impairment is such that the veteran neither currently capable of successful and
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