Personality Disorder. How This Fraud Works

[Guest fla_viking]

Dear Fellow Veterans & Friends

In 1976 I spent 3 hard years in the Army just trying to make it through with my scizophrenia. I did not know I had it at the time but made my job much harder. I would not take a chapter 13 discharge because of my otath to serve 3 years.

After discharge I went to Fort Snelling VA hospital MN and had a battery of tests. The Dr slaped PD on me and stated I had an adolesnt ajustment problem. I got this medical report and immeatitly felt I would not place my health care into there hands. None the less beliving I had no serious problems I went out into socity and went to collage got a job and married. 2 1/2 years latter I had failed at all 3. My wife was divorceing me, I was fired from a job, The VA denied compensaton saying my sichizophrenia did not show up until 1980 and all I had was a PD diagnosis from 1976 and 1977.

Because I had the PD opnion the VA gave themselfs permission not to review the orrigional medical opnion and the diagonosis of schizophrenia. All along the VA knew if they looked at the similiartys of the two tests they would see them identical. But because I had PD it was like I lost all rights to have any kind of review of the history of my illness and if there was a nexus.

22 years latter when I went up on appeal just for the issue of having my first C&P ever. The VA fineally gave it up and admitted when the documents viewed together show a continuing link from service to present day.

If you are given a PD diagnosis or have one already. The lession here is you are treated by the system as if you lost all your rights. and you have lost your rights. The only right you have is the right to force them to do for you what they would do for any other veteran who does not have PD. That is your right to have them look at your claim, but you will have to force them to do it.

I was lucky in my case the failure of the VA to give me a C&P was a procedural error that allowed my foot in the door. There are many other violatoins of law the VA does that re opens claims.

The real harm here is not just what happen to me, But my first wife did not deserve to go through taking care of a sick vet who neither of us knew of my condition. IT was real confusing time. She was a good women, So many spouses are also victums of PD fraud.

IF the government gave you a PD diagnosis there was something wrong and in many cases PD was used to cover up more serious disablitys that are compensatibel by the VA. If I were you I would pull out all papers regarding treatments when PD was given you and look at your current disablitys. The courts have ruled any similartys of disablitys even small ones are Service connected. You deserve to stop the govermnet lies in your life.

Terry Higgins