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May 1 10 5:28 AM
Thanks Nakiea, you echo exactly what my hd says. He also feels they will try to wiggle out of being held accountable. The promises that the VA system will change can only be pinned down by those who expect better accountability. This comes best by confronting the VA with their own rating system. When the medical evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of the VET, when it is substantiated by their own test standards... then abuse is happening. There is the real danger that an individuals inability to vocal their complaint, to table a seriousness of need, to question the denial for rightful compensation... will tip the favor not towards the vet by towards the VA - which goes totally against their main objective... to lean towards the serviceman. There was a darn good reason we waited over ten years to file this SC claim --- I had to become mentally strong enough to wedge myself into the challenge.
The VA has set the standards for SC PTSD. The VA laid the first foundation for this malady's identification, they know all to well its symptomology and the high incident of misnomer diagnostics due to PTSD's cause as being repressed by the individual. This has led to numerous mental health labels among vets (as well as civilian) that are later proven false as evidence supporting PTSD is supplied. They know this practically better than any entity on earth as the VAMC was first to identify the malady of PTSD, finger its symptoms, reveal the obsticles leading to correct early identification - removing those problems which allowed them to eventually devise evidence based treatment plans based on a wide range of histrorical outcomes. I personally know this because:
The Mainland based diagnostic PTSD team that assisted with the Aloha Airline Incident on Maui (1988)was also pressed into service to assist Hawaii's Department of Education in helping faculty and staff with their exposure to a tramatic event known to promote PTSD. This PTSD treatment team openly based their credibility, their authority, on the premise that the majority of their PTSD training stemmed from the sucessful medical data developed by the VAMC. They used the VA's own diagnostic measures to not only identify PTSD but an individual's suseptability to the malady and the environment in which it was likely to occur.
The weight of this is heavy - for the VA to deny vets SC PTSD according to their own rating system, their own devised testing methods, will place too many other institutions utilizing those diagnostic tools at risk. My own claim for PTSD, which was granted, was based on the recomendations of that PTSD team visiting Hawaii. The method of treatment devised to treat my PTSD was also derived from VA standards used to treat SC VETS. This goes far, far beyond our injured Vets.
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