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[Themaninbrown]

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Edited August 19, 2018 by Themaninbrown

[Guest L]

Welcome @Thermainbrown - Sorry for your in service trauma, hope you are in therapy and receiving help MH help for both. ( It works if you work it...   ) I have found great help with the VA peer groups. 

This does look like a good ( Generalized) honest C & P exam. Your ICD 9- Code is for PTSD-Chronic - and they linked the Substance abuse to the event... et al. 

The verbage in the statements are what is necessary for a good rating , meaning 50% & above. ( words like greater probability...) 

The one thing I was wondering-

Which is personal so no need to share in print....  hopefully no criminal convictions with the substance abuse issue - that need to be dealt with - and your remission is relatively short term since May 2018. The write up did not address either one of these as a big issue in the exam.  

Keep up the great work!

 Looks positive to me.  As a reference the criteria. 

100

	Rating
Total occupational and social impairment, due to such symptoms as: gross impairment in thought processes or communication; persistent delusions or hallucinations; grossly inappropriate behavior; persistent danger of hurting self or others; intermittent inability to perform activities of daily living (including maintenance of minimal personal hygiene); disorientation to time or place; memory loss for names of close relatives, own occupation, or own name.	100
Occupational and social impairment, with deficiencies in most areas, such as work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking, or mood, due to such symptoms as: suicidal ideation; obsessional rituals which interfere with routine activities; speech intermittently illogical, obscure, or irrelevant; near-continuous panic or depression affecting the ability to function independently, appropriately and effectively; impaired impulse control (such as unprovoked irritability with periods of violence); spatial disorientation; neglect of personal appearance and hygiene; difficulty in adapting to stressful circumstances (including work or a worklike setting); inability to establish and maintain effective relationships.	70
Occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity due to such symptoms as: flattened affect; circumstantial, circumlocutory, or stereotyped speech; panic attacks more than once a week; difficulty in understanding complex commands; impairment of short- and long-term memory (e.g., retention of only highly learned material, forgetting to complete tasks); impaired judgment; impaired abstract thinking; disturbances of motivation and mood; difficulty in establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships.	50
Occupational and social impairment with occasional decrease in work efficiency and intermittent periods of inability to perform occupational tasks (although generally functioning satisfactorily, with routine behavior, self-care, and conversation normal), due to such symptoms as: depressed mood, anxiety, suspiciousness, panic attacks (weekly or less often), chronic sleep impairment, mild memory loss (such as forgetting names, directions, recent events).	30
Occupational and social impairment due to mild or transient symptoms which decrease work efficiency and ability to perform occupational tasks only during periods of significant stress, or symptoms controlled by continuous medication.
A mental condition has been formally diagnosed, but symptoms are not severe enough either to interfere with occupational and social functioning or to require continuous medication.

 

Edited August 17, 2018 by L