Axis 1 - Anxiety Disorder Not Otherwise Specified

[Josephine]

This claim of mine is over whelming me.

I know everyone is tired of hearing about my claim.

I just can't let them beat me out of my benefits.

I had my first C&P with a diagnosis of Generalized anxiety disorder with a more likely than not.

5 Months later a Board of Two Psychaitrist - Axis 1 - Anxiety disorder not otherwise specified

Decision- nothing bothered her in service.

Paragrah before the decision - she was taking librium and caffergot in service.

This to me is not a plausible statement. Why would I have been taking two coded drugs.

What are they saying about me with the Not Otherwise Specified??

I could wring that DRO niece of mine by the neck for not helping me.

I hope that she eventually makes it to the Appeals Court as she would like.

Thanks,

Josephine

[Josephine]

Hoppy,

Dr. C. my treating physician in service made the mistake of writing - vascular versus tension headaches? Cafferot not effective Librium T.I.D.

When I called Dr. C. I asked him if he would please clarify his medical records for the Veterans Affairs.

I mailed him all of his medical records and those of the two military psychiatrist.

He said that he has always wrote in concepts and that any stupid doctor can tell this. He said that was what " vascular versus tension meant".

He wrote me back a letter stating that he had his medical records in front of him and the reports of the two psychiatrist.

He stated that he added a tranquilizer to my headache medicine for anxiety and that he was supportive of my early discharge.

He stated that after 42 years, he could not be absolutely sure that he sent me to the two psychiatrist, but they were the two that he sent his patients to for sensitivity and caring.

My discharge followed shortly thereafter.

He wrote that we were a close knit group and that if I had been any behavior problem that he would have been aware of this.

He stated that I babysit for he and his wife and that I was very suitable and very creditable.

He said that he thought that I had received a medical discharge in 1964.

Dr. J. the military psychiatrist states that I was referred to him by the medica staff for nervousnes, irritable and headaches and with a change of working conditions and a change of the barracks, I may be able to stay in service.

This was not the case, within two weeks, I was back to another psychiatrist, which lead to my discharge, medical conditions the same.

Dr. L. The Salem Medical Center Psychiatrist started this Librium for headaches, and that Dr. C. did not assist me with my early discharge, that I was discharged for a behavior problem.

Not true.

I received an early discharge as stated in the letter by my commanding officer due to foul mouth people, working conditions. and living in the barracks and my values being devalued. ( if you call being jerked by the neck by a physican until you wet all over yourself - working conditions) I don't call this working conditons. I call this down right assault.

He stated that I could not perform the most menial task and rendered me no further use to service.

I do have a copy of my transfer papers that finally came through, which I requested before the early discharge to get the hell out of that place.

Those records have been hidden also for 42 years.

Amazing what the archives can find, if you have the technician on the telephone and tell him exactly what you need.

I was surprised in the remand - I sent you the link - the medical records that they speak of and the other records are my long lost psychiatric records and that letter by my commanding officer. Never seen by the Va until I secured these for them in 2004. Now I finally have my request and approval for transfer, which I turned in to The Management Center for review.

After that second C&P - I wrote to R.O. and ask them for another C&P and they gave me my answer with their denial of benefits.

I contacted Honorable Daniel Cooper and he called The R.O to give me an answer and to quit holding up my claim.

I am happy that you finally won in the end and I called The Management Center and told them to write down again, that I definitey wanted another C&P.

I have all the medical records from 1965 and all of my military records to take with me.

I have it all and I am ready to get it over with for the last time.

This sounds like a winner!! The entire subject of administrative errors and adjudicators manipulating evidence is the subject of a post I have been thinking about for over a month. I will probably type it up soon

Thanks bunches!!

Josephine

Edited September 18, 2006 by Josephine

[Josephine]

Thanks,

Josephine

Edited September 24, 2006 by Josephine

[Berta]

Men and Women and also I direct this to Josephine-I just watched a video that always brings tears to my eyes.Lackland USAF Base.

My daughter was in the first USAF integrated Squadron in history- meaning the first squadron that provided the same exact training to men and women-

Each parent at Lackland Graduation gets a video of their child's basic training and somehow their child appears in the specific video they get ,doing many things-Frances is shown her first minutes at the base- everyone getting off the bus looks exhausted already and wants to go home-(they were up for many hours more as you all know) Day one Basic Training.She is then shown at the firing range with an M 16 and also the video show her scaling a wall, maneuvering over high logs, and then swinging from ropes over water and briefly appears with other airman squiming under the wires in the dirt.She liked that one a lot.

As a parent I still feel horrified at the confidence course-the high walls, the moving logs,,the water exercises-not to mention the war games and watching young men and women and my baby girl in Battle dress uniform doing difficult things.(she was in BDUs for next 7 years)

Yet to my kid the confidence course was a hard long day in Hell but she loved it and she loved the rest of the bivouac-she said the MRIs were delicious and she might have had shrimp (yeah right) but wasnt really sure what it was.

My point is Josephine that the VA can consider some inservice problems and what to me -as a parent-would be almost traumatic experiences yet the VA can state (and they do in BVA cases I have read) that the veteran's claimed stressor is part of the rigorous nature of normal military training and they can deny a claim on that basis.I only point this out to you as I am unaware that pool instruction was part of basic training (I am a civilian) and this is why the VA wants more info as to how this claimed stressor can be proven and how it affects you.

I thought originally that your claimed stressor was the death of a servicewoman.

Edited September 16, 2006 by Berta

[Josephine]

Men and Women and also I direct this to Josephine-I just watched a video that always brings tears to my eyes.Lackland USAF Base.

My daughter was in the first USAF integrated Squadron in history- meaning the first squadron that provided the same exact training to men and women-

Each parent at Lackland Graduation gets a video of their child's basic training and somehow their child appears in the specific video they get ,doing many things-Frances is shown her first minutes at the base- everyone getting off the bus looks exhausted already and wants to go home-(they were up for many hours more as you all know) Day one Basic Training.She is then shown at the firing range with an M 16 and also the video show her scaling a wall, maneuvering over high logs, and then swinging from ropes over water and briefly appears with other airman squiming under the wires in the dirt.She liked that one a lot.

As a parent I still feel horrified at the confidence course-the high walls, the moving logs,,the water exercises-not to mention the war games and watching young men and women and my baby girl in Battle dress uniform doing difficult things.(she was in BDUs for next 7 years)

Yet to my kid the confidence course was a hard long day in Hell but she loved it and she loved the rest of the bivouac-she said the MRIs were delicious and she might have had shrimp (yeah right) but wasnt really sure what it was.

My point is Josephine that the VA can consider some inservice problems and what to me -as a parent-would be almost traumatic experiences yet the VA can state (and they do in BVA cases I have read) that the veteran's claimed stressor is part of the rigorous nature of normal military training and they can deny a claim on that basis.I only point this out to you as I am unaware that pool instruction was part of basic training (I am a civilian) and this is why the VA wants more info as to how this claimed stressor can be proven and how it affects you.

I thought originally that your claimed stressor was the death of a servicewoman.

Edited September 16, 2006 by Josephine

[Josephine]

Berta,

Yes, it was difficult to see Doris lying on the side of the pool not breathing, but I was so busy trying to figure out how to stay alive myself, I just didn't have too much time to ponder it. Yes, the recruiter lied to me as he stated that they would definitely give me swimming lessons, Not True! They didn't give a dern about 2 girls out of about 50 that was no more than a nuisance to them.

Being jerked by the neck by a physician wasn't the normal part of navy life either, at least I didn't think so. They will believe me or not. As the psychaitrist in service chose to write down, dis-satisfied with working conditons.

Actually I have my service records and went to my first duty station with a 3.8 but did not leave out of there with one.

My present complaint is the lies that Dr. Leh the psychiatrist at the medical center said about me.

If she couldn't give an honest opinion of my disability, she shouldn't have taken my private medical records and changed them.

I ask the Management Center definitey for another C&P, so that I can at least prove my character as a person and not the person that she made me to be.

Whether or not I receive any payments from this, isn't much of what it is about any more.

I have the first C&P of more likely than not that my anxiety began in service and now the other one, stating that nothing bothered me in service.

She only arrived at this opinion, because she changed all of my private and military records.

She gave me that Histronian Personality in doing so.

I do not have an eating disorder - just severe diabetic

I do not cut myself with razor blades or inflict injury to myself.

I do not have a child somewhere in the USA that I gave away or something.

I do not have any Article 15's in service- she said that I did

I do not beat my husband and have affairs with other men

I do not destroy my lovely home, by throwing food all over the floor and breaking up my furniture.

I do not and have never wanted to be the center of attention.

This is not true, it is lies and I wish to disprove her.

I am not sure how to approach a 3rd examination.

I do not know whether to defend myself against these attacks.

Any insight as to how I should actually handle myself at the next examination?

The U. S. Navy did in fact ruin my life, but whether or not I deserve compensation for it is anyone's guess.

Glad that your daughter did well in service. Perhaps it was a different time period. I know that the Navy does have different standards now as opposed to 1964.

Yes, I did look it up and swimming classes are offered.

Josephine

Edited September 17, 2006 by Josephine

[Hoppy]

Josephine,

Sorry for being away. Sometimes when I regurgitate the B.S. I went through with the VA it spins me out and I have to take some time off.

I will keep working on my workup of administrative errors.

One thing on doctors. I went to an appointment with the Employment Development Dept. in my state. They determined that I could not accept employment thus my unemployment insurance would not be paid. They told me to get a letter from my doctor explaining my disability and the limitations that apply to work. Then I was to bring the letter to them and they would decide if I was available to accept employment.

This occurred in the early eighties. I did not have a primary doctor. So I went to the walk-in clinic at the VA. They referred me to a PHD for an assessment of employability. I told the interviewer that I needed a letter from a doctor explaining that I was disabled. I did not go into much detail as to why I needed the letter. I did not tell her about the state EDD telling me to get the letter. We talked for a while and she set an appointment with the vocational rehabilitation specialists. She never sent me to see a doctor to get the letter explaining my limitations at work.

At the time I had already learned that if I told employers that I had a life threatening vascular disease that could be aggravated by work activities that I would not be hired. I was not interested in going on SS disability because of the low benefit amount. I was just trying to get some unemployment ins. money in between jobs. I went back to work and did not give the lost EDD benefit much thought. I did not tell employers I had this disease.

20 years later I got my VA medical records for my VA angioedema claim. I read the report written by the PHD and just about fell over. She said that I had come into her office seeking a letter stating my disabilities and that such action was the result of the fact that I had an “anti-social personality disorder” and that in a time of hardship this emerged as a desire to claim I was disabled and is a manifestation of “criminality”.

This doctor was so far out of the main stream of the requirements of labor law that she should not be allowed to practice what ever it was she did for the VA. The requirement that an individual with a disability have this noted in writing by a doctor and made available to potential employers has been told to me by every person who works in the field of delivering benefits and assistance in the goal of obtaining employment. Labor law lawyers, job search workshop administrators, EDD counsellors, and employers themselves have all told me I needed such a letter. The first time I heard this was in 1979 and eventually in 1993 by my own attorney.

In 2002 I took the idiot PHD’ note to a VA psychologist and told the psychologist that had I read this note in my file 20 years ago that I would have tried to get this idiot PHD fired. I told the new psychologist to make a note in my file that such a letter was a requirement of labor law and not a manifestation of “criminality”. I just wanted the record to be accurate and did not want, out of the main stream opinions of idiot PHD’s, cluttering my file with their opinions.

I know your frustration, and have confidence you can get through this VA maze. By the way there were times I could not go to social gatherings with my friends just because I knew the topic of the VA would come up and I would not be able to control my anger. I often found myself sitting in a restaurant and swearing up a storm, so I just decided not to go to restaurants with my friends.

After I settled my claim many of my friends told me they thought I was losing it and I was not going to win. One of my brothers (the non veteran) told me this. My other brother who was already service connected and the folks on hadit were the only re-assurance I got. My mother knew I had a battle in store. My mother had helped my brother with his claim. My brother’s claim was almost as frustrating as mine. My mom got opinions from her doctors and helped write all of his arguments. Gather all your resources and support from your family and don’t let the idiots who have snuck into the medical profession get you down.

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