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I start anger management group theraphy for 8 weeks next week and I also start PTSD Education Group therapy next week for eight weeks. I guess I am officially diagnosed with PTSD now. I am waiting for the copies of my last few physch appointments and cant wait to see PTSD listed in AXIS I of a pysch diagnosis. :huh:

Then I will have to call my VSO and tell him, and make him eat the words I will never win a PTSD claim, I am still waiting on a PTSD C&P

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I start anger management group theraphy for 8 weeks next week and I also start PTSD Education Group therapy next week for eight weeks. I guess I am officially diagnosed with PTSD now. I am waiting for the copies of my last few physch appointments and cant wait to see PTSD listed in AXIS I of a pysch diagnosis. :huh:

Then I will have to call my VSO and tell him, and make him eat the words I will never win a PTSD claim, I am still waiting on a PTSD C&P

I think we live about 25 miles apart. I`m wondering what service organization does your VSO come from? I have totally ignored mine and do not want his help.

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LarryJ,

It has become sort of a "game" to me.

I'll call up the AMC and speak with someone (Pearl or Ernest or one of the other folks), and I'll make a note as to what they tell me, so's I can share it with my wife, you know, kinda the "high spot" of my week. She gets to go to work and interact with other people, so I figger what-the-hey, I'll call up the AMC and interact with people also, that way not only she will have something to share with me, but I also with her. Anyway, Im up to, lessee, about 8 different stories that keep getting repeated over time, and again, and again.........

It's not Pearl or Ernest's fault, after all, they gotta tell ya something, right? Otherwise they'd have not a job, right? And they don't dare tell the "TRUTH" (kinda reminds me of a movie with Jack Nickolson in it), for if they told the troooth, that NOBODY knows what-the-fook is going on, then that'd get 'em fired also.

So, we play the games...........................

I laughed at this until my sides ached.

Well, Pearl told me that she had been promoted to a Rater, who knows, maybe she will work on your file or mine.

Ernest can't answer a thing and there is a Mrs. Cooper, that I spoke to the other day and she wouldn't let me speak a word. Smart Alick. Goodness! If I ask a question, she jumped to the defensive.

I was told that the Judge is expecting an answer on my claim the 6th of December. I sure hope that my stay there is coming to a postive close.

Keep up the good humor!!

Josephine

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