Many veterans suffer from a condition known as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or Ptsd.
Ptsd is a thinking condition condition, which, agreeing to the American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostics and Statistical by hand for thinking Disorders, Fourth Edition (Dsm-Iv) is: "[T]he amelioration of characteristic symptoms following exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor lively direct personal contact of an event that involves actual or threatened death or serious injury or other threat to one's corporal integrity...[the response to which is] intense fear, helplessness, or horror."
This healing condition often does not appear for weeks, months or years. Whenever a Veteran is diagnosed with Ptsd, however,service-connected Ptsd surfaces, it is a compensable condition and the veteran is entitled to disability benefits.
Military Veterans often find it difficult to prove to the Va that the Ptsd is aid connected. I hope that by outlining the general requirements for proving a claim for Ptsd to the Va, more veterans are able to obtain recompense for what can be a horribly debilitating disease.
There are three (3) factors that a veteran must show to obtain disability recompense for Ptsd:
1) Obviously, the veteran must be diagnosed with Ptsd. So, the first requirement is that the Veteran supply healing evidence of this diagnosis. The Va often misdiagnoses Ptsd; if you feel that a Va doctor has misdiagnosed you, you can all the time seek appraisal by a inexpressive psychiatrist or psychologist.
2) Next, the veteran must proved that the trigger, or stressor, for the Ptsd, occurred in service. This is called the "in-service stressor", and there are two very separate sets of rules applicable to those Veterans that contact a Combat Stressor, or those veterans that contact a non-combat stressor. The evidence needs to be credible - something or person to corroborate the in-service stressor is all the time helpful, but corroboration is not the only thing that makes a single version of events credible.
3) Lastly, you will need to prove the connection, or linkage, in the middle of the diagnosed Ptsd and the "in-service stressor". This is often the hardest element of the three to prove. Usually, evidence from a lay or healing devotee who opines that the in-service stressor was a "contributing factor" to the symptoms of the Ptsd should be adequate to obtain service-connection for the Ptsd connection.
If you are a Us Veteran heading out to Iraq or Afghanistan, you should anticipate a strong likelihood that you will return from your aid with Ptsd. I strongly recommend that before heading overseas, you have an independent psychologist or psychiatrist do a "baseline test" for Ptsd. Do not supply this test to the military, and do not use a soldiery doctor. Save the description at home with your foremost papers, and when you return, if you are diagnosed with Ptsd, you should be able to prove, convincingly, that the Ptsd was caused by soldiery service.
Veterans Disability compensation - How to Prove a Claim For Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Ptsd)
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