Posted on Jun 4, 2015
Why I don't have PTSD but I have all the symptoms
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Screw the VA and all of their quacks. How someone can have all of the symptoms of PTSD but can't be PTSD because you weren't shot at is bullshit. Screw them. I hate this. Have you ever seen somebody after they put a bullet through their brain and splattered it all over their living room wall? I have. Have you ever had to collect the personal belongings from a body and find among them an Easter card from his kids? I have. Have you spent years dealing with child abusers, rapists, and murders? I have. Have you ever had your career and livelihood threatened by being told the only way you were going to have a career change was through leaving your present career in handcuffs or a body bag? I have. Screw these people. I don't know what to do next. This asstard at the VA says I am not suffering from PTSD but yet he offers me an evaluation for it and then withdraws the offer after I tell him I don't want to be treated for it in the VA system because I have a therapist that I trust. I guess the VA could give a shit about me.
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I am sorry to hear you are going through this. My suggestion would be to seek another provider within the VA, try another VA, or stick with an outside provider. If this is related to C&P, then I'd make sure a full evaluation is done or there is no chance of obtaining compensation. There are dicks in the VA system, but there are good people as well. The shitty thing is taking the time to find the diamond in the ruff.
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SFC Robert Wheeler
I guess as far as the VA is concerned, what I experienced does not fit their definition of a traumatic event.
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SGT Kevin Brown
That is surprising to me, based on your post above. I could see how they don't identify your trauma as combat related or maybe even service connected, but trauma in and of itself is subjective, not objective. A person can obtain PTSD from any form of trauma including; rape, car crash, witnessing death, natural disaster, being in the vicinity of a horrific event (such as 9/11) and so on. I would research the DSM V criteria for PTSD diagnosis (that is the book utilized to make such a diagnosis) and bring your findings to the VA if you feel you still fit the mark. Below is a link to the VA's information on DSM V. Again I am sorry to hear you are going through this, for some this is an on going battle (I have a few buddies fighting the same thing). To be honest with you I think the VA refrains from diagnosing PTSD and other diagnoses because they are qualifiers for compensation in some cases.
http://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/PTSD-overview/dsm5_criteria_ptsd.asp
http://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/PTSD-overview/dsm5_criteria_ptsd.asp
DSM-5 Criteria for PTSD - PTSD: National Center for PTSD
Describes the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for PTSD.
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I sympathize with you. It can be a suicide, a bad car wreck, anything really violent that can be the impetus of PTSD.
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Brother you are right but taking this step, talking about it, helps I retired in 1996, became a volunteer firefighter went on a call, a truck load of kids had flipped over, my partner and I drive up on scene first will die because trauma to the head, second victim my daughters boyfriends brother I maintain his airway and breathing 45 minutes before a paramedic arrives has me roll him onto back I tell the medic I suspect a punctured lung and he cannot breathe tells me do it, minutes later he dies for me I am pissed but he's a medic I voiced my regret to my fire captain and we talked, it's been 15 years and it still haunts me but talking to family and comrades it helps, your a soldier we do what we do we fight just don't quit
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