I guess all of you’d like to have a peak at the exam you have to go through for PTSD. This is now de rigueur at the VA. No more private doctors cum hunting buddies writing up their nonsense nexus to get you PTSD. Below please find link to 121-page manual on how to see what’s going on under the hood.
No, veterans. The days of the unlimited PTSD rating just based on that airplane crashing in front of you or your buds in the slick in front of you getting nuked by a B-40 are gone. With the new law change, Xanax usage is going to drop dramatically. Veterans formerly diagnosed with bent brain will get new, recycled exams and mark my words. You guys are going to get better by their measurements. That means reduced ratings. If you think this is impossible, you just don’t remember the early seventies and all the “personality disorders” some of us suffered. We came home and discovered to our relief that it was nothing more than antisocial personality, avoidance personality, passive aggressive tendencies, ritual compulsions, dysthemia- all minor little peculiarities fortunately.
Read this manual to find out how the VA shrinks are going to look at you under the microscope. It’s dry but there is a wealth of info in there. You simply can’t live without it if you plan on filing. Consider it getting a peak at the process ahead of time. You may not want to file.
http://www.avapl.org/pub/PTSD%20Manual%20final%206.pdf
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Bethanie Spangenberg
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Wesley McCauley
Veterans Claims Help 
Invaluable information on PTSD. Interesting to know that it’s not necessary to “hide” some pre-service stresses that predispose a vet to post-service PTSD.
Just downloaded it. Thank you again.
No, thank you. What you are doing for your husband is invaluable. I have seen many spouses carry the water for their injured husbands and I am amazed at the tenacity of you gals. Virtually every one of you has won because of stubbornness and a refusal to throw in the towel. It’s a two way street, too. We have a spouse in Arkansas who is doing the Lion’s share for his wife (the Vet.) She just had a transplant and is indisposed. War was hell. This is far more fun.