ptsd Getting Out Of Psych Ward Today

[betrayed]

W3ell Im going home after 14 days in the crazy house. My Copies of my last C&P's came and my wife broought them to me at the hospital to read. My C&P Physical is beautiful last three sentances say something like will not improve, ability to work poor when I get home I will post exact wording, I have to go read the CFR but me thinks the wording the doc used will get me 100% for PTSD.......................I am hoping my personal war with the VA is finally over and I can move on with my life!

[john999]

There are lots of trade offs and offsets for federal civil service workers if they get injured on the job or have to retire on disability. You don't get 100% of disability retirement and your SSDI. There is a 60% offset to your disability retirement from SSDI. You can't get federal worker compensation for an aggravation of you VA disability if your VA disability in increased. This they call duel compensation. If all you have is civil service disability retirement and SSDI you are going to be eating a lot of beans.

[Tbird]

let's not go there where we are suspect of each other. if you are suspect of someone is not being honest just ignore them don't respond to them it serves no purpose here to post your opnion that someone may or may not be valid. that is a discussion to nowhere.

[betrayed]

Technically your ex is entitled to half of your retirement for the hardship she put up with living the military lifestyle, so no sympathy there. Alimony I always disagree with unless it's shortterm (like 1 year) to help her stabilize her life.

Personally, and it's just my feelings, from your posts and how cavalier you seem to be, I see someone looking for the gravy train. Now that Congress has allowed what I consider double dipping I feel you're just trying to double your income easily.

You're probably a really nice guy and have a valid claim but I sense differently. Sorry!!!! I wish you good luck in your attempt at getting 100%. jmo

pr

I dont know why I am even responding to this I guess I take being called a fraud or a liar is something I cant just walk away from.

I Never asked for sympathy, just didnt want to hear about how much my retirement was, and the alimoney is for 5 years.

I applied for vocational rehabilitation and was denied, I was deemed unemployable by the veterans administration, and not feasable to obtain a vocational goal. I didnt want that, I wanted to work but they decided I cant.

The VA knows I am unemployable thats why the filed a infered clam for TDIU for me and I had them withdraw it. All I want is a fair adjudicated claim for my disabilities. As far as my attitude, I have a real bad one, I have been screwed around and screwed around just like allot of other vets on this board. If I could get a attachment to attach I would attach my voc rehab denial letter and the results of all my C&P's just to make you eat crow.

And your right I am really nice guy and have a valid claim, and you have a bad sense of judgement.

TBird thank you, I wondered how long you were gonna let this BS go on.

Edited January 18, 2007 by FLHRCI

[betrayed]

FLHRCI:

Why did they admit you to the Psych Ward? Was it threats of suicide, or harming others, violence ? Would like to know. Was it a VA hospital?

Thanks.

Sorry I didnt answer you b4 this, it was the thought of suicide and homicide, I sat in my upstairs window for days with homicidal ideas poping in my head. Different scenarios bottom line the scared the hell out of me. I got to the point I was gonna end it all, the night before I was admitted I sat up all night with a pistol in my hand down stairs. I eventually fell asleep, the following morning my wife came down stairs and found me and the gun. She took me to the VA and walked me to my primary care providers office and told him. He called pysch and took me down to them and from there I went up stairs to the lockdown. They asked me lots of questions especially about being homicidal, some I answered and some I took the 5th ammendment on. My background lets me know what I say can be used against me. They were not very happy about the fact I wouldnt identify any target. And yess it was a VA hospital. I have been in that ward three times now for being suicidal. Do you have questions about a VA psych ward or something?

[vaf]

FLHRCI, did you do anything to cause the C & P examiner who accused you of fraud some grief? Write a letter to the patient advocate, copy the Veterans Commission, and both Veterans Committees in Congress? Copy your congressional representatives?

If you feel like you can't hit back on this, you can. I wouldn't let the creep get away with it, without trying to express my views and what was said to me.

That just makes me so angry, and it didn't even happen to me!

[Philip Rogers]

First let me appoligize for what I, apparently, may have caused. This was not my intention. FLHRCI probably has a valid claim. This is just me. Certain things don't ring true and this is just me. My intention was never to disrupt this board. I never called anyone a "fraud and a liar," no matter what anyone says. Check the posts. A while back someone, and I don't know who, stated about being in combat 24/7 . . . to me this is an absolute lie. No one was in combat 24/7. Most combat was routine (scary) patrols interrupted by shear moments of terror (firefights) but they were few and far between. I've been to the National Archives and reviewed what actually happened. Again I appoligize for any disruption I may have caused. Perhaps FLHRCI can m/c together someday. jmo

pr