Posted on Apr 18, 2016
VA Mental Health Care Delays, Staff Shortages, Plague Veterans
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The VA and others think that help, involves the military version of the Baker Act. They take your clothes and keep you locked away. I have talked to other veterans, who say, do not go to the 9th Floor (Mental Health) where they take away your dignity and give you new medication. You are a threat.. They have panic buttons in their classes for Mindfulness or CBT. They think that that is help? They stigmatize you and they wonder why veterans feel hopeness. You talk to the National HQ for Homelessness in Washington, DC. and they tell you that the Administration in Washington limits what help you can get.
If you are homeless, they suggest that your pet is expendable. Therefore, the only thing that gives you get comfort from, is taken away. You can be proactive and you are known as a threat. a threat to the community and incompetent.
There are awesome people that work there, but a corrupt system, who is dismissive of men and women, who have gone through hell. That bar of soap and a cheap cup, brings hope or suicidal ideation. We are not trouble-makers, we see ghosts, muggers and veterans dying at a truck stop, doing odd jobs to eek out a living.
What is your take? Do you think the system is failing? @
So, you get upset and they are more worried about how this affects them and then veterans commit suicides. When you are alienated and hopeless, you are harassed by the Keystone Cops and their flak jackets. Is this help? Is this any way to treat people who have seen brain matter of their buddies or that have Leukemia, ALS, Anxiety and a plethora of other maladies?
You lose you hope, while you see veterans sleeping in their cars at truckstops, a Walmart parking lot, while drug deals are going on and 70-plus aged veterans are shot and killed, while Benny 9 to 5, abruptly shuts his window and goes home to air conditioning, clean bedding and an alarm system, just in case.
If you are homeless, they suggest that your pet is expendable. Therefore, the only thing that gives you get comfort from, is taken away. You can be proactive and you are known as a threat. a threat to the community and incompetent.
There are awesome people that work there, but a corrupt system, who is dismissive of men and women, who have gone through hell. That bar of soap and a cheap cup, brings hope or suicidal ideation. We are not trouble-makers, we see ghosts, muggers and veterans dying at a truck stop, doing odd jobs to eek out a living.
What is your take? Do you think the system is failing? @
So, you get upset and they are more worried about how this affects them and then veterans commit suicides. When you are alienated and hopeless, you are harassed by the Keystone Cops and their flak jackets. Is this help? Is this any way to treat people who have seen brain matter of their buddies or that have Leukemia, ALS, Anxiety and a plethora of other maladies?
You lose you hope, while you see veterans sleeping in their cars at truckstops, a Walmart parking lot, while drug deals are going on and 70-plus aged veterans are shot and killed, while Benny 9 to 5, abruptly shuts his window and goes home to air conditioning, clean bedding and an alarm system, just in case.
VA Mental Health Care Delays, Staff Shortages, Plague Veterans
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Thanks for letting us know SSgt (Join to see) that VA Mental Health Care delays and staff shortages continue to plague veterans who need treatment so badly. I know the problems are not nationwide and hope that they will be addressed soon.
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Sgt Albert Duran
Eric Golnick, CEO, of Veterans and First Responders Healthcare, along with Eric Frieman, of Strive Healthcare, have opened an outpatient program in PA, NJ and NH, and the VA, has partnered with them as well as were invited to the O'Bama, White House and met with the Trump Administration. They want to expand to Houston, with me as their connection to the Veteran groups here, and the also want to expand to the West Coast.
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SSG (Join to see) I hope I have tagged the original poster, I'm a civilian and if your settings exclude your screen name to us, you are "Anonymous" to me. And that is a great place to start my reply to your question. NONE of our Service members, Veterans or their Family are "anonymous" to me. I am military family, and so: you're family I have not yet met. That being the case, anything less than giving our Veterans hope and support is not acceptable. The only way we can change that is to do as you are doing and rally common voices and support. Most people don't know what REAL "Veterans Service Organizations" actually are and what they actually do. Their "services" to Veterans is not something I can expand in here, because that's a thesis dissertation! However, what I can say is this: REAL "VSO's" by dictionary --- and Congressional law -- are 501c4... yes, FIVE-Oh-ONE-C-FOUR (not three, FOUR!) nonprofit organizations devoted to social welfare and can participate in politics (501c3 nonprofits are banned from this activity). 501c4 Veterans Service Organizations can LOBBY at the local, state, and Federal level. These are the organizations that fight for you in Congress. They are VFW, American Legion, Disabled American Veterans (DAV) and a host of others. They all have eligibility requirements, and so I stick to pointing out the one with the broadest scope: AMVETS, and the one with the target on Veterans benefits: DAV. My suggestion to all is to get involved with your local chapter of AMVETS and DAV and use their POWER. It's YOUR power, too. Unfortunately, too few younger Veterans and the more active components don't know this. It's time, y'all. It's time. There are channels, grab them and take them. Every single Congressman and Senator has a Veterans liaison staffer, often one or more. And on their legislative team, there's a staffer devoted to Veterans issues and another to healthcare issues. Call them. Go see them! They all have offices "at home" in your state. Usually more than one office so that they have locations to see more constituents. THEY WANT TO SEE YOU! They really do. Actually going to your Congressman ir Senator's office and speaking saliently about the issues that matter to you is your right, their duty, and they want to support you... they really do. Also, in your STATE Governor's office is a department on veterans affairs. This is NOT connected to the VA, the Directors (or Secretary or Commissioner different States, different titles) has the job of directing -- or at least watching impotently with no budget -- your State's veterans services. Call them. Go see them. This is your infrastructure. OP and others, would you like me to do a video on this? I'll take the time if you feel it's worthwhile to share the education. I'll teach y'all where to go... and then I want to SEE you go, OK? Lt Col Charlie Brown Alan K. LTC Jeff Shearer (Join to see) SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth COL Mikel J. Burroughs PO3 Tammy Rome SFC (Join to see) SFC Shirley Whitfield Cpl Scott McCarroll SGT Michael Thorin Maj Robert Thornton SPC Douglas Bolton Sgt Albert Duran Sgt Douglas Berger CPO Nate S. LCpl Steve Smith TSgt Matt Zien PVT Karl Goode
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