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Can a Vet claim PTSD benefits for Service aggravated disability?

I was in the Army during the sixties and got a hardship discharge because of my mothers illness.

I have been diagnosed with PTSD two years ago and the above is the stressor.

I still have all the letters from doc. neighbors ect. that i used to apply for my discharge.

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Hi and welcome,

A hardship discharge does not prevent a vet from having a successful disability

claim for service connection. Whether you could get granted SC for PTSD with the stressor that you have discribed,sure sounds like a hard claim to me.

Carlie passed away in November 2015 she is missed.

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Big...Question....you said that you were in the Army in the 60's...at any time during your military tour did you serve in a war zone?

There is a reason why I am asking you that question...you stated that your mother's illness was the stressor...Could it be that you experiance a tramatic event during your tour of duty prior to being notified..and that your mothers illness elevated your stress and anixity which evolved due to a tramatic experiance during your tour of duty...which in turn developed into PTSD??...what I am trying to say...is what your experianced during your military tourt could actually be the stressor...Our brains are designed to protect...and in order to protect you the memory will mask itself to an event that you can't handle...In many people who have PTSD they know an event happened but choose to relate to a situlation that they can deal with...normally people who have PTSD will be in denial of the tramatic event...because they can not emotionally handle it. Something to think about...

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Thanks for the responces. I am Big's wife and he needed me to answer. the question.

He and his mother lived in a remote area (nearesr neighbor 1/2/mi. No plumbing or electricity.

He graduated from HS June 66 got a job and was able to get electricity. Still no plumbing. Water had to be drown from a piticher pump outside. There was no phone and the closest store eight miles.

Big was drafted on Sept. 66. His mother was totally disabled since he was fourteen and recieved 45.00 a month SS.

He served ten months and nieteen days none of which was in a war zone before he got his hardship discharge.

His mother had no family to help her.

Sorry to be so long winded, but i felt some detail may help someone to understand his stressor.

His mother that he loved dearly has been haunting him in his dreams by killing our pets and hurting our grand children.

He just up and quit his job May will be two years.

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Has a medical professional provided a diagnosis of PTSD?

What is the documented nexus, (cause of, relationship to) his PTSD?

carlie

Carlie passed away in November 2015 she is missed.

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