Falsely claiming PTSD for VA benefits?

Lot of what ifs here.

Worry less about preventing people from getting things they’re not entitled to. Worry more about making sure folks get what they deserve.

Seems to me if he was relieved of service duties he should not receive any benefits / if he has claimed ptsd he should most certainly not be allowed to own a fire arm as I know veterans who truely have ptsd and they cannot .

The claim that every combat veteran suffers from PTSD is contrary to the data. The research is also clear that for most patients PTSD is not necessarily life-long, that it can be successfully treated, and that many people who has been professionally diagnosed as having PTSD can nevertheless live a mostly normal life.
It is unethical for mental health professionals to comment on the condition of someone whom they have not personally examined, or to comment on individuals outside their own specialty. I am not a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist, although I am a psychologist who has studied the issue of PTSD and resilience. I cannot legitimately answer any of the questions at the end of the "basic info."

My answer disappeared because I typed it before signing in? weird.
THERE IS RAMPANT FRAUD. I was at Walter Reed a year after wounded in Iraq. 2 more at TAMC at home before med retirement. I was wounded and lost my medical career but I CAN tell you that 1:5 approx were REAL--the others were faking it to get MONEY disability. It was so outrageous I tried to intervene and became a patient advocate when ambulatory because I'm a doc. But the TRUE PTSD were severely wounded or saw many deaths. The AVERAGE guy who rarely went outside the wire were FAKING IT. There were several sexual assaults there who were genuine and one I know was not as she told me the truth. HUMAN NATURE, as in FREE MONEY, unfortunately has reigned in the Iraq/Afghan vets I see. Lawyers who take 50% are rampant but somehow they get the ratings done. I find it a sad reflection of our times. and those who TRULY have PTSD have a difficult time because there are so many whiners/fakers. Group therapy was 'my trauma is bigger than yours'...and the stories were stolen from other soldiers/marines (one I knew personally...) SAD state of affairs but it is somehow the world we live in today. Gotta deal with it and if you are a real PTSD then don't let them get YOU down.

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I’d simply say; “Stay in your lane”. You’re way out of line to question the professionals and to do so on a public forum, because clearly you are questioning the professionals. Unless you have earned the licensure to legally assess a persons mental fitness by completing hundreds of hours of education, lab work, and other licensure requirements you’ve no right to speculate openly. In fact you could be civilly held responsible for creating a situation wherein you’re discrediting this individual. I know of many people who are collecting all sorts of disability from social security to workman’s comp to VA benefits and on the outside it looks questionable……. But you do not know what they know. A person cannot simply SAY they have this or that and get taken at face value, there is so much research and oversight, investigations and practical and theoretical knowledge at play in these decisions it’s hard to pull off a scam. Not that it doesn’t happen but it’s hard. Further anyone will support this statement, getting anything from the VA is hard, so if the guys been rated it’s probably for reasons you don’t know and you’re speculating it’s PTSD. Maybe he was sexually assaulted and only professionals know this….. maybe he tripped and hurt his little finger but to him that was to much…… you just don’t know what you don’t know and speculating makes you sound super shady.

It is because of these that it is so hard for those of us that were raped in service to get our PTSD rating. I have been fighting with them forever and have gone to so many of their hearings and still at 90% waiting to get my last results. I still have flashbacks and wake up in the middle of the night reliving these awful times. When I first married my husband, he came to bed and did not wake me up before he came and touched me. I blacked his eye. I got out way back in 1975. My lawyers have been very good fighting for it but I am not sure why it is taking so long. I have been following my doctor's orders and his regimens with their medications and medical appointments. All of my doctors feel that I should have received the 100% years ago. Anyone with any ideas as to what to do next? I am open to suggestions.

If he doesn't follow the medication and therapy schedule through the VA he will lose his disability rating. It's people like this that make it hard for the rest of us to get what we need and deserve.

Everybody somehow became a trained professional that can tell who’s lying about PTSD or not after getting out… you can claim PTSD all day long. It takes 2-3 doctors to diagnose PTSD. Mind your own business and enjoy your checks