Sgt. Smitty
06-08-04, 11:49 AM
Anyone having trouble with PTSD get ahold of me...i have a list of recognized symptoms put out by the govt. It was picked up at a VA Outreach office in Oregon. It shows the symptoms recognized by the govt. along with an explanation of a few of the symptoms. This paper turned my world upside down the first time i read it because i connected on almost every symptom on the list. It's time to make this country pay for the hell they put us through and the so-called "welcome home" we got from this country.
Here is how the VA rates Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and all other service connected mental disabilities...
Total occupational and social impairment, due to such symptoms as: gross impairment in thought processes or communication; persistent delusions or hallucinations; grossly inappropriate behavior; persistent danger of hurting self or others; intermittent inability to perform activities of daily living (including maintenance of minimal personal hygiene); disorientation to time or place; memory loss for names of close relatives, own occupation, or own name...100
Occupational and social impairment, with deficiencies in most areas, such as work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking, or mood, due to such symptoms as: suicidal ideation; obsessional rituals which interfere with routine activities; speech intermittently illogical, obscure, or irrelevant; near-continuous panic or depression affecting the ability to function independently, appropriately and effectively; impaired impulse control (such as unprovoked irritability with periods of violence); spatial disorientation; neglect of personal appearance and hygiene; difficulty in adapting to stressful circumstances (including work or a worklike setting); inability to establish and maintain effective relationships...70
Occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity due to such symptoms as: flattened affect; circumstantial, circumlocutory, or stereotyped speech; panic attacks more than once a week; difficulty in understanding complex commands; impairment of short- and long-term memory (e.g., retention of only highly learned material, forgetting to complete tasks); impaired judgment; impaired abstract thinking; disturbances of motivation and mood; difficulty in establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships...50
Occupational and social impairment with occasional decrease in work efficiency and intermittent periods of inability to perform occupational tasks (although generally functioning satisfactorily, with routine behavior, self-care, and conversation normal), due to such symptoms as: depressed mood, anxiety, suspiciousness, panic attacks (weekly or less often), chronic sleep impairment, mild memory loss (such as forgetting names, directions, recent events)...30
Occupational and social impairment due to mild or transient symptoms which decrease work efficiency and ability to perform occupational tasks only during periods of significant stress, or; symptoms controlled by continuous medication...10
A mental condition has been formally diagnosed, but symptoms are not severe enough either to interfere with occupational and social functioning or to require continuous medication...0
Sgt. Smitty
06-09-04, 10:05 AM
CAS3.......good thread.........hope between the two of us we can get more Marines help with the problems caused by PTSD....This is a very disabling condition and needs to be addressed ASAP in order for our fellow jarheads to receive the help and compensation that we all deserve.......Semper Fi........carry on.