Most Veterans Misunderstand This VA Disability Rating
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Attorney Melanie Williams briefly talks about Suicidal Ideation and the different way that it is looked at. She discusses the ways that you can get service connected for this rateable disability.
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#suicideawareness #suicidalideation #vadisabilitybenefits
I often think of the loved ones suffering if something were to happen to me...😢that has kept me going since 2006. I'm staying strong for them@ 💪
For warning ⚠️ the crisis line will call 911 on you if they think you're a danger. Most police officers aren't trained to respond to mental health crisis, & could make this worse. It happened to me but I wasn't suicidal, I was just frustrated with the VA's lack of services. Thank goodness the police didn't arrest me "for my own good" like I've seen online. I'm not saying don't contact the crisis line, I'm just letting you know what may happen.
They don't arrest you for that, they just take you into protective custody.
@@sminthian same difference in that they take away your freedoms.
@@boxelder9167 absolutely right.
@@Sgt-GravyI tried and got caught in the military trying to commit suicide but the military and then later, the VA threw me to the trash for over 20 years AFTERWARD. I tried several times per month for 5 years to do away withy life, unsuccessfully. Then it abruptly stopped.
It took the VA 20 years, yes, that long, to even BEGIN attempting anything to help me. Even then, I reported a VA hospital director to VAOIG for causing the deaths of dozens of veterans and for changing my doctor's notes to keep me from getting awarded what I deserved.
Instead of investigating her, the VAOIG shared my report with her and told her to "deal with me." She made an open threat in front of her entire office that she was going to m u r d e r me. Everyone heard it but only one person who worked in her office came to me to warn me about her death threat against me
And sure enough, she tried to have me killed a month later by having a doctor she had under her thumb to try to stop my heart. It almost worked and I had to retire from working forever.
It was 2 years after that when I told every lawyer and VA employee in every state I visited a VA hospital about that, the VA finally relented and awarded me my due pension.
But they really put clamps on me and that's not fair.
4 years after I got my pension, the primary doctor they stuck me with kept screwing with my tests for an increase (which I never did get) but he made his intentions and reasons very clear when he would call me a liar to my face in his office. So I recorded two visits of him calling me a liar. I reported him to the VAOIG and to the White House VA Hotline. The White House sent delegates to investigate my files and that doctor and they "locked me in" that the VA can never reduce or stop my current pension, though it can be increased. The banned and barred that doctor from ever having anything to do withe ever again, he's not allowed to contact me and he can never put any notes about me in my file, which he did for awhile after I fired him.
The VA is filled with treacherous snakes and they cannot be trusted. Any time I hear of a veteran dying, I always ask myself what the VA has done or how they did it.
Don't ever give the VA a reason to call 911 on you for self harm ideation because cops are not trained and they will do away with you to protect you from yourself. Just call the hotline or go in person. And be careful what you say.
@@Sgt-Gravy Every time I make a comment, these idiots delete it I'm done... unsubbed.
I have PTSD with suicidal ideation but I’m only rated at 50 percent
I am 100% P&T and when I had these thoughts quite a bit but I always lied and said I never had these thoughts because I was embarased about it and I even lied during my C&P exam and said I never had these thoughts because my wife was in the room and I didnt want her to know about this so it isnt a part of my VA rating but I also filed an SSDI claim and had to go through similar exams for the SSA and I wasnt expecting to have a mental health exam because I didnt put it in my claim but I did and this time my appointment was private with just me and the MD and this time when I was asked I finally talked to someone for the first time about this and it was one of the hardest topics I ever had to talk about and it turned a 30 minute appointment into a 2 hour appointment.
Thanks for this information,, as I always thought these exact thoughts after getting out of the Philippines and military
Just so everyone knows and not misunderstanding and has their expectations set - suicidal ideation is SUPPOSED to be an indicator for "automatic 70 percent" but it is often not given. Take it from me. DBQ and notes mention suicidal ideation with suicidal box checked, but given 50%
Ditto, and the HLR affirmed it without a good explanation. I had to file a very difficult supplemental to prevail, and of course then they dicked me on the effective date so it's still not over yet.
Ditto, and even the HLR botched it. It took a Supplemental to fix it, but then they screwed me on the effective date so its still under appeal. THIS is the kind of thing people should expect from the VA.
Good info but as several commenters have noted it is very far from an automatic 70% in real world experience. The VA can and does ignore its own rules, regulations and case law. I encourage anyone pursuing an MH claim to read up on Bankhead v. Shulkin (2017). It's a CAVC case that educated the VA on what they were doing wrong in evaluating SI under the 70% criteria. I received my initial rating in 2021, four years after Bankhead. Yet the C&P examiner, the initial rater, and whoever handled my HLR must have been utterly ignorant of this case and its guidelines (unfortunately I was too!). If they did know about it then they failed to give a veteran the benefit of the doubt as required. It took a very difficult and detailed Supplemental to get them to do the right thing. Today, seven years after Bankhead the M21 Manual still makes no mention of the case or its guidelines. This suggests to me that they are still ignorant and continue to get this wrong.
No such thing as automatic with the VA
True..lol
The only thing that's automatic with the VA is their going to resist, lie, and deny.
Auto denial exists I am sure.
I've actually talked to my doctor and a case worker and they sent me to talk to someone that didn't believe me and dismissed everything I said to her
I should get my rating in two days, just retired today. I'd brought this up a couple of times, but I'm not sure if it made it through my C&P exams. We'll see...
Login to TOL, your DBQ’s should be in your file, under the documents section.
It's disconnection to the old, which one just disappears at times...
Does it count if the VA pushes you to it !?!?
Good info .
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The 38cfr for MH does not have SI listed as automatic 70%. Is it in the Va regulation?
Can you do a video about what rating for MDD multiple hospitalizations and or a suicide attempt. I had 7 hospitalizations 1 suicide attempt and suicidal ideation. I just filed for MDD as per my VA psych doctor she said this will reflect in my mental health records that this is service connected. What are my chances of getting 70-100%?
Now, if only the VA hospital in ATL took MH seriously...
Do you currently need to have suicidal ideation to get this rating or can it be something that is happened in the past?
The VA rejected my claim as not being service connected although I was diagnosed with MDD with SI...true my service records don's show anything because I was trained to suck it up and stay focused which I did and the wheels didn't come off my bus until after my retirement...so I am disposable according to the VA.
Did you claim it secondary to a service connected disability?
Keep trying and get help.
We aren't the VA, you aren't fooling anyone in here.
You have to keep going back over and over again until everyone gets to know you on a first name basis. You can be in the greatest pain in the world, go in to one, two or a few appointments and it’s not going away. Eventually you’ll figure out who you need to talk to and how to get through the system. Granted it’s harder to get there when your life is falling apart and the process is taking forever.
Dole va is the most crazy place I have ever visited anywhere. I go monthly yet zero help ever. Wow.. we got lied to us all. It is all hindu now trying to lower their federal debt
I tried to get VA a Disability for PTSD. My civilian doctor and I talked about PTSD. After our conversation he said, "you have PTSD, go see the VA." I tried and all I got was a woman who asked a few questions and that was about it. NO Disability Rating. It was about what I expected. My PTSD started when we had a fire on our ship. I could have rescued three of men, but I was fairly new on the ship and didn't know where the fire was--it was almost under my feet. After watching what my daughter went through I gave up on any help. She was in the Army Reserve and spent a year in Iraq. A Marine truck broke down and she had to crawl under it to fix it. One of the Marines took a 50cal and murdered a goat herder, his herd of goats, and his donkey on a dare. She made the mistake of reporting this to her CO. She was shunned by her unit and didn't even get a Combat Action Ribbon. It took her over four years to get a 40% disability rating after she got home. She spend 14 years in the Army and left as soon as her last enlistment was up. If we don't care of our people we shouldn't send anyone to war.
You need a medical diagnosis for PTSD and a DBQ to make a claim for your situation.
Can a polygraph test be used to prove a injury happen in service ?
Misleading title. There is NO automatic VA rating!
Very true. They should change the title.
My brain dead doctors knows I have that but they never used that in my case.
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Gorgous
For someone with a law degree, you sure know alot of nothing about the VA disability process. Theres no such thing as automatic 70% for anything.
I want them to point to the rule, law or policy that shows an automatic 70% for SI.