Where do I file? ADRB/APDRB/ABCMR/ARBA

[Grofica]

I was many of the thousands that got chaptered under personality disorder when it should have been for PTSD. (see report https://www.law.yale.edu/system/files/documents/pdf/Clinics/VLSC_CastingTroopsAside.pdf)

I am so confused at where I am supposed to file!!!!

• Has anyone else been through this?
• Which is the correct agency to file with?
• If I was chaptered under the correct chapter I would have been rated for disability when I was chaptered, but they didnt even recognise it until 2012... and I want all my docs to be corrected and rated back to when it should have been. ie get backpay if possible.

 

[Keebs]

When were you discharged?

 

[chaplaincharlie]

@Keebs It appears from the signature, Jan 03.

 

[Keebs]

So with that you should file with the PDBR. But know it is an Air Force project not an Army one. The Army will just accept or decline the PDBR recommendation.

As far as getting your discharge recharacterized from a personality disorder to PTSD that is a VERY long shot. But you could still get a medical retirement from applying. I have PTSD as rated through the VA. The Army med boarded me for bi-polar disorder. If I have bi-polar disorder I am the highest functioning person with the disorder in all of America and should be a case study! No symptoms of it and take no medications, and my doctors at the VA say I don't have it. But, the PDBR stuck with the bi-polar on paperwork and gave me a medical retirement. Whatever, I took it!

 

[Honlaw]

From my own experience, I tell you that it is pretty challenging to change in documents that you do not have a personality disorder but PTSD. You have to knock on the door of the doctors to consult you and give all the analyzes, to receive a diagnosis and a new medical record confirming that you have PTSD, BPD, or others. I had to do a new set of documents to prove that I had BPD to retire early. The guide from Signs of Borderline Personality Disorder | Spotting BPD Symptoms helped me to find out about the disease I have and to be able to communicate it effectively to doctors.

 

[tayawllms]

As soon as I got out the service my paperwork said personality disorders but while deployed. Something happened and the docs had given me medication 4 my ptsd. I was labeled as having ptsd while deployed but I went to Germany 4 about a mth and then they me sent back state side. Documents got lost however the medications that I was given followed me to back to state side. Va awared me service connect for my ptsd at 70 and then turned it into P&T. I haven't worked since 2009 which is when the Army released.

 

[OIF1MP]

1. Yes
2. For me my attorneys went ABCMR and the ABCMR agreed that it was PTSD and not a personality disorder. ABCMR referred me to the PEB portion and just started it.
3. I have always felt the same.