Greetings all
Over the past several months I've been dealing with mental health issues right after my tour in Afghanistan. I've been in the military going on 10 years
Post-deployment, the USAF BH provider referred me to a private MH clinic who diagnosed me with PTSD and MDD (I have the discharge paperwork). The provider on base was extremely reluctant and diagnosed me with adjustment disorder (Now going on 9-10 months) with NO change to CHRONIC AD which is per the DSM, from my understanding.
I've finally gotten to the point where I'm getting really tired of fighting the military mental health system and im finally looking for help on how I could go about getting my adjustment disorder diagnosis changed to PTSD if and when I decide to get out. I'm completely terrified on how this would affect me on the VA side of things. When I take my medical records to the VA will they scrub the private MH clinic PTSD diagnosis and replace with adjustment disorder(Not chronic)? even though I've been dealing with it for about 10 months? I'm terrified that if something were to happen that I would be discharged with no benefits and that I'm basically getting short changed for my service overseas which eventually brought me to the point of putting a gun to my head right after I got back.
Long story short, I dont know where to start or who to turn to for help on fighting this. Any suggestions, advice, or pointing me in the right direction would be much appreciated. Thank you all!!
Over the past several months I've been dealing with mental health issues right after my tour in Afghanistan. I've been in the military going on 10 years
Post-deployment, the USAF BH provider referred me to a private MH clinic who diagnosed me with PTSD and MDD (I have the discharge paperwork). The provider on base was extremely reluctant and diagnosed me with adjustment disorder (Now going on 9-10 months) with NO change to CHRONIC AD which is per the DSM, from my understanding.
I've finally gotten to the point where I'm getting really tired of fighting the military mental health system and im finally looking for help on how I could go about getting my adjustment disorder diagnosis changed to PTSD if and when I decide to get out. I'm completely terrified on how this would affect me on the VA side of things. When I take my medical records to the VA will they scrub the private MH clinic PTSD diagnosis and replace with adjustment disorder(Not chronic)? even though I've been dealing with it for about 10 months? I'm terrified that if something were to happen that I would be discharged with no benefits and that I'm basically getting short changed for my service overseas which eventually brought me to the point of putting a gun to my head right after I got back.
Long story short, I dont know where to start or who to turn to for help on fighting this. Any suggestions, advice, or pointing me in the right direction would be much appreciated. Thank you all!!