NO Combat HIGH RATINGS For Mental Health VA Disability Claims
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
- Mental health includes conditions like PTSD, anxiety and depression and mental health claims remain as one of the most common disabilities claimed from the veteran community when submitting VA disability claims. Combat is not required by any means and there are TONS and TONS and TONS of examples from veterans suffering from mental health that is quite frankly...none of your business.
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- Clay
Thanks for your story, man. And thank you for doing what you did for our country.
Great video. I used to be that guy who would secretly judge those who were non-infantry. I realized that everyone's situation is different and that I should just worry about myself and support my fellow veterans in their quest to get the rating they deserve.
I keep my Va comp to myself. People get jealous to hear you get these benefits, especially family members. I used to get hate from other vets who thought they were more messed up, and did not think that I deserved what I got. I learned from that and I don’t share anything to do with Va comp. When other vets tell me that they are 100%, I tell them awesome, and leave it at that. Great topic.❤❤
I had to question my brother on why he told other family members that I received 35k backpay.. He's also a veteran at 90%.
If those people spent more time minding their own business they wouldn't have time minding someone else's!
This is the comment that needs to be heard...
Retired Coast Guard (AD 27 years). I know plenty of my Shipmates who have PTSD for a variety of reasons. Pulling dead bodies out of the water, flying 50 feet over the Ocean hundreds of miles from shore, boarding drug vessels, emergencies while flying missions (losing engines, fires onboard, major weather, etc., law enforcement missions, counter terrorism ops, security missions, and so on. For those who think you have to be in combat to have PTSD you are sorely mistaken. People can literally get PTSD over boot camp! I remember visiting Cape May Training Center (our boot camp) about 20 years after graduating. We watched the Company Commanders pick up their company and I swear all the enlisted folks had a bit of PTSD- remembering the first days of boot camp! Point is: You never know what triggers someone and what they have been through. Good video Clay.
Hey thanks! This was that video 😂 thank you for being a member!!
- Clay
Growing up in Florida, I thought the Coasties had the easy life. Once I joined the Army and heard their stories….😱
As a retiree I totally agree with you.
❤
As a USCG veteran that like many did search, rescue, and recovery. I will never forget the smells of the dead nor the flashbacks to the events.
Air Force here. My career field touches a few different areas, Mortuary Affairs being one of them. It took me a lot of years to realize I was having some mental health struggles due to working in this field. Glad I eventually sought out some help to get answers. Outside of my wife and you all now, not many people know.
Thanks for covering this Clay. 100% agree. All the nonsense gatekeeping and infighting reminds me of high school and really takes from what should be a brotherhood among vets
Right ?! And that energy should be directed at making the va better
It’s extremely petty
- Clay
The biggest problem we have is veterans pointing fingers at other veterans. Everyone's story is different and its not a competition nor are you taking away from another veteran by receiving disability. We all need to unite because we have bigger enemies out there trying to take away our benefits.
Thank you for covering this clay , I'm 10 years Navy Corpsman FMF 8404 , One thing that the instructors at hospital corps school tell you about is to have deliberate calm when treating the injured . As A Corpsman I learned this well what is not said is that Deliberate Calm will come back and haunt you . I have had to treat many injured Marines to many to count . When doing one man CPR on A injured person after the ventilation when this person breath out I could hear the death rales and see the life leave his body feel the life leave his body this and other things I had to do in the line of duty has given me PTSD . I will be going to my C&P for PTSD on July 2 2024 next week ! Now some 40 years later . My Psychologist has diagnosed me with PTSD I have been seeing him for 8 years now I hope to get the rating I deserve ! Thank you for all you do Sempr Fi Brother .
Thank you so much! You’ve explained this in a way others can understand a bit better. This is a perfect explanation of the phrase “you can’t see all wombs.” Every “soldier’s story” is a unique experience. I served, my grandfather served, my father in law served, my two brothers served and my son too. We all served active duty and all can tell you stories for days. The fact that we are still here to tell it is a blessing within itself because most of us unfortunately did experienced death in one form or another during our military experience. Those who can’t understand, I’ll send them this video. Again, thanks!
I think you mean, “you can’t see all wounds.” Wombs are something different (also hard to see though).
Good lookin' out Phil! 👀 😁
I don’t tell anyone anything because I don’t trust other veterans.
So true! Many veterans feel they have entitlement and are owed all the time. Most are admin who have never seen a combat zone but yet have ptsd? Trust nobody especially a vet!
@MadMeave you don't have to see combat to have PTSD. Or are you talking about wartime?
@@MadMeave You sound like one of the haters that Clay is talking about.
@MadMeave combat this combat that, why don't you go live on top of a toxic landfill for three years and then pop off about combat. Shit we were dealing with burn pits, herbicides, and other toxins long before you guys were in the Gulf War, to the most recent shit in the middle east.The government didn't give a damn what they were burning in the landfills,spraying into the air you were breathing, or how close you worked and lived next to them either.
I forgot, if someone invades your safe space you go see the chaplain huh? You can just walk around any base and see how soft are military have become.
That banana show in Oki was traumatic
PTSD 100% for sure
- Clay
Absolutely
For Sure
Well said Clay! I totally agree with you! Thank you for everything you do 🙏
Well said Marine. !!!1st FSSG/CLB1 here camp foster many times
I will be the first to say I was one of the nay sayers but this video has changed my perception I never thought of it this way
It’s certainly nuanced and not a black and white type of answer
- Clay
Excellent message Clay!
Thank you for making this video. I didnt get to deploy. I was given orders that ruined my body before I could go anywhere other than an exercise on okinawa. It sucks feeling like I shoulda done more, been in longer. Videos like this give me hope that someone will understand... You cant see my injuries, the spine is jacked up. I can walk short distances without a cane but I prefer to use it more often than not, helps with pain. Got a brace now for foot drop, that luckily hides well enough under my pants if I wear them instead of shorts. You wouldn't know how bad my body hurts by how it looks... You wouldn't understand how it affects my mental every day... I get to see people of all ages and sizes doing things I'll never do again, like running or sports in general, heavy lifting. I can lift 20lbs... but I have to worry about someone saying something rude? Its ridiculous...
Thank you for this video. We served and if you can prove then you deserve
Well said. Thanks
I was with the 22nd MEU. I did two floats and as you said hating life. Besides getting off the ship it sucked
I was stationed on USS Essex - the taxi for the 31st MEU out of Okinawa. Thanks for doing what you're doing. Great, important information!
I hope you treated those Marines nicely 😂
- Clay
Have a more of time taking care myself, it becomes personal. To wonder why i should be in somebody else's business. Help is there if and when. Just got to go for it. Vietnam era marine vet.
During C&P exam they don’t ask you about deployment and I’m deployed to many times too no access to the phone and internet just old school writing or maybe email but it get block sometimes.Deployed during in support in Enduring freedom and Iraqi freedom but I got deployed before and after that. Missed my kids births.
I have no oversea deployments but plenty of conus ones. Being away from my son and just doing things that no one else would ever do or even think of is life changing. Maybe we were not shot at but at the end of the day we all served and that says a lot. Things can affect anyone at anytime but for us we know how much time away from family we’ve endured and events we have missed. There are also other things that could happen, think about sexual assaults, or injuries during training. It happens guys just leave them alone and worry about you. If you want to complain, complain about the billions that our government sends out to foreign countries.
yup, my first deployment, i was single, no kids, shit was crazy but “tolerable”…. second deployment, was married with 2 kids, theater wasn’t as bad but mentally it was a burden and also experienced not connecting to my girls when i came back home
I have a friend and shipmate kill themself while we were stationed overseas. We weren't in any sort of combat situation, and looking back at it, he displayed multiple signs of the potential to hurt himself. He left a 20-page note detailing what drove him to it.
Nobody knows what is going through another person's mind or their life. To judge someone without knowing is just plain ignorant.
Yes, there are Veterans who have and are gaming the system, but I believe they are few and far between, and every Vet deserves the help they need, and compensation for what they rate.
Amen brother totally agree
For me this was the best video you have posted . It hits home 100% for me and my child’s relationship. Keep up the great work sir.
Was at Camp Schwab from 86-89. Lots of deployments to the PI. 😃
One of the biggest issues I have with the VA is their definition of combat. If your deployment wasn’t during a time of a congressional declared war, you don’t get recognized as a combat deployment. I deployed on a classified operation & experienced a hostile fire event yet my rating specifically states a non combative situation
The VA definition of combat veteran is extremely broad. If you've ever received imminent danger/hostile fire pay or have one of several dozen medals that were handed out like candy when I was AD then the VA considers you a combat veteran.
@@rogersmith7808 yes, in a canned situation where Congress authorizes the President to deploy troops to a hostile area, all that is achieved and the VA recognizes the combat tour.
I’m talking about a classified deployment where Congress didn’t authorize. Nothing is entered in your record book, you sign an NDA, no hazardous duty pay, no CAR or any medals can be awarded.
VA has two types of PTSD. One is a result of combat which is easier to get SC and the other is a result of non-combat which is harder to be SC for.
From this Doc who served with 3/9, thank you for your service. great video, I've really been able to learn items.
AMEN BROTHER !!!
I used to do crossfit back in the days and while in Kuwait, had surgery and recovery was horrible. before this I was team motivator hey, you have nothing else to do while on deployment except work and work out. After the surgery, they had me on all sorts of drugs, feeling like a loser because now I am that guy on profile. you know that stereo type peeps on profile trying to get out of doing pt. Needless to say, for a long time, going to gym was depressive because I was not able to do those things in the gym like I used to. It was pain. Now, I focus on getting to the gym and just doing the basics of working muscle group with an exercise that does not hurt my body.
this has helped me with mindset and attempting to build the muscle. I still have issues, but something is better than nothing.
I understand their jelousy. Something one claim is accepted, and sometimes a more or urgency is denied.
Mostly because they didn’t submit the correct evidence, or they had a shitty va rater!!
Clay, you said it well and what I was thinking: ...mind your business.
Thanks for this video Clay it’s a shame that you had to make it. It’s out right “Blue Falcon” behavior to treat your fellow vet with judgement.
How about the 'ghosts" at oki old barracks?
Well said. I always considered anyone who served honorably a brother. I got out in 76 and never deployed oconus. That being said I was an SP/LE. like any cop you are always one incident away from PTSD, injury or death. You do not have to be in a war zone thousands of miles from home to experience the worst and the best of human beings. I would after 911 work a contractor for the DOA. It's all fubar. We were/ are brothers, part of a team, a mission. Let's help each other carry the load not burden them.
Quick question should you talk about childhood incidents if you had any when going to a CnP exam for mental health? Or are they luring you so they can say your trauma happened before military service?
Here: ua-cam.com/video/mA_nDF4BzNE/v-deo.htmlsi=CsC3UQywXginHw9j
- Clay
if someone already has a mental health rating and they've been out for less than two years, how would they get a higher rating. Just submit for a higher rating, or try to appeal?
Here: ua-cam.com/video/GJ9z4Py1jmM/v-deo.htmlsi=HWodknANp3tjSNS_
- Clay
I have a mental health C AND P on Friday. I think it will likely get service connected. I was in the US Air Force and just worked on technology, no combat. However I feel the technology I worked on played a HUGE role in assisting the militaries global force. It wasn't running around with a gun all the time , but it takes technology to win battles. I was obsessed with jiu jitsu and used to help marines and even navy seals with their grappling. I ended up injuring my cervical spine during one of these sessions, which is now service connected. I am filing anxiety secondary to this cervical spine injury because its destroying my current engineering career. My service was just as good as anyone else's. It takes a lot to have a successful military force including advanced technologies. And in reality, the guys who can build advanced technologies -- are they less valuable than the guy who can run around with a gun? Not if you want to actually win wars.
MOS doesn’t matter, especially in secondary claims. I will say you want to prepare yourself for a denial and if that’s the case, I’d recommend IMO/DBQ especially for MH secondary to musculoskeletal.
Also, I just started BJJ and boxing. It hurts, a lot. But I feel great after each session mentally.
- Clay
@@TheCivDiv Yeah I know most claims get denied. If that happens that is ok. Curious tho, why should I prepare for a denial? Is it usual with MH secondary to physical injuries?
Hey man quick question -- I don't have an IMO but I have pretty much a direct medical opinion from two doctors I did not ask for. I found in my medical records two MDs that wrote something to the effect of "Patient appears to be suffering from severe depression and anxiety from his cervical spine issues (service connected)". I did not ask them at ALL for these medical opinions they just wrote them in my records. Does this count the same as an IMO? Even if its not an "official" medical opinion on a VA form?
I have a medical record that states my mucous membrane was severely damaged due to cleaning a barracks cement floor in Bermuda with bleach and ammonia. Since then I can't smell or taste food or anything else for that fact. Im looking at doing a claim for the loss, it's only 10% but that puts me at 50%. Do I need a doctors repost or a Nexus letter on it?
Yes
Probably nobody has the answer yet but I was wondering if with the new mental health ratings, would someone with TDIU P & T automatically rate at 100% and the TDIU would drop off?
Nope
- Clay
Great video. Keep up the good work.
This is what i call breaking it down barney style
Is the LPD, USS Denver still kickin?
Great video, Clay!
Hello Clay! I was 3rd MAW 1966-1970.😊
Who do you get a nexus letter from? It is so hard to go to a private physician and ask they might think you are only there for the letter.
Mind your own business. Yup. Well said. My work on Okinawa haunts me everyday.
I was station in Okinawa… You probably was at Schwab that damn place some crap
Scwab in ‘14 and Hanson in ‘18
- Clay
Everyone’s different and it’s no one else’s business.too many counting everybody else’s money
This situation always reminds me of an old joke from the Balkans (although it applies to most people)
Nikolay was a poor farmer just barely surviving in a run-down house with an ugly wife. Nikolay's neighbor Vlad was much more successful because Vlad owned a cow. Vlad had a much nicer house, a prettier wife, and a great life. Nikolay would get so angry seeing Vlad selling his milk and butter. Nikolay believed Vlad's success and happiness were because of the extra income Vlad made with his cow.
One day Nikolay was plowing his field, by hand, as he could not afford any sort of farm equipment, and found a magic lamp. Nikolay picked up the lamp, and to his surprise, a genie appeared.
Genie - "Nikolay, thank you for freeing me. I will grant you one wish."
Nikolay - "Well, my neighbor Vlad has a cow and is so much happier than I am. He makes more money. He has a nicer house and a prettier wife."
Genie - "I see. So your wish would be to have a cow like Vlad?"
Nikolay - "No. I want you to kill Vlad's cow."
As prior service, a bunch of us at AIT where housed in separate buildings than the noobies.
A guy in his thirties started talking about leaving and going back to his wife. He being prior service, he knew
what would happen if he did. Those of us around him spent two weeks trying to get him to not go AWOL. But he
chose to leave. None of us understood why. Yet at the same time, we knew we weren't him. No body bashed him, ridiculed him. All of us were older and realized his situation had more moving parts than we could have imagined. Normally, in the Army, we all eat our own so to speak. But once in a while we get it right.
Don't worry about anything or anyone. You did what you did.
You protected this country from all the threats Foreign or Domestic.
31st MAU Oki.
West Pac
State side and then Beirut.
241. Everyone needs to stay Focused and take care of yourself.
Gunnery Sargent.
USMC
The rate of someone else is none of your business period. Everyone is responsible for submitting real evidence and the VA is responsible for rating it. If you didn’t get rate correctly you should actually question your evidence and your abilities to articulate when you write a statement in support.
I got 100% PTSD for working as a finance clerk in the Army spent 5 years active service.
MST in a Combat Zone? Love to hear you speak on this rating. Thanks.
All of that is irrelevant as far as location. It comes down to symptoms once SC.
- Clay
Yup here’s a scenario, went partying and getting drunk in a sausage fest after duty hours. Now she’s 100% for PTSD due to MST. GTFO.
I was 7th MAB, brother. Before the MEU. Semper Fi.
I was too brother.
Great message. Money changes people and brings envy.
@theCivDiv Clay I have a 50% Mental Health rating (no combat) when one of my Marines died. Even just typing this brings tears to my eyes. I'll never be without that experience. I promise you, no one knows you but you (and sometimes you don't know you) Don't let the dum-dums mess with you. You're a valuable piece of this community and we NEED you! Thanks for all you do brother! Semper Fi
Did you get treated in service?
You need to look at the rating schedule for mental. I may be wrong, but you prolly have symptoms from the 70% rating. You're tearing up at the thought of what happened. I have to assume you have flashbacks, and survivors guilt, maybe even some suicidal ideation.
If you're comfortable with where you're at, leave it alone. but you owe it to yourself to understand why they rate the way they do and figure out what you didn't say that you should have, which would have fallen under 70%. Im not saying lie, but if you dont even know what 70% = based on symptoms, you cant be sure you're rated properly.
Solid Big B and thank you very much.
- Clay
Good info for all the Cold War Vets who served either on the "Grenz" or the DMZ. Thanks!
lol i did the 31st MEU too 2 months in Laundry room OOORAH 😂
I want to know how they allowed you to buy a car in Okinawa 😂. We had a midnight curfew . Only staff and Os could even drive
Only E-5 and up 😂
- Clay
Well said brother 👏
What a great, man, husband, marine and father! Ooorah brother.
Don’t make me cry 😂
- Clay
Where I live the VA will pay for my Y membership lol. I run and swim and this has nothing to do with my rating.
Well stated. The only thing I would add, is veterans need to be careful to whom they share the details of their rating or compensation.
Kinville!!!!!!!! I could go for some chicken yakisoba right about now!!
^^^ word. My friend and I got matching tattoos of our favorite spot in Kintown
- Clay
2007-2010 Oki! 2 deployments in between! Iraq/Qatar. So connected to this video brother. Thanks for your viewpoint!
Prayers for all veterans!!
Im rated 90% now and I only had 1 deployment...
Combat Craig has said it best. It is none of anyone's business what your disability is from the VA. Keep it between you and the VA.
Stop!!! Telling people your business, and what your percentage is. Everyone not happy for you. Get them DV plates off your car as well. Your neighbors in the hater group as well.
Okinawa was my first duty station with the Navy. With a squadron at Kadena for 2 years 76 and 77. Retired in 95.
Yep i know exactly where you are coming from Children and Marriage changed things for me
Great video brother
All thse service members and vets out there minding other people business are the same ones compaint that they are not rated correct and having 3 combat deployments, got blown up and inly received 20%. If thats you, stpol being nosey and comparing our rating and go out and get your own evidence
Hi Clay! Thank you for the video. Also, do you know a doc that can help with a nexus for migraines?
Direct? Secondary to what? Best to ask questions in discord.
- Clay
Yeah, I know that feeling.
I serve Three years in spain, And work Around nuclear missiles, And it wasn't till I got back to the United States. And was in the real world. that my psychotic condition rear Its ugly head
Just call them what they are....Blue Falcons. Odds are they were blue falcons while in service and they continue the blue falcon tradition by arm chair quarter backing someone elses rating.
Thailand and PI are always clowned by other veterans when I call them deployments.
I dunno, missing your family is something everyone goes through. I missed my family when I went to summer camp as a kid. I feel like you're projecting.
Imagine seeing the federal government give trillions of dollars to other countries then getting mad when your homie gets 50% rating…
Dang you went to Haiti. I am from there I did not think marines deploy there I mostly here army deploying to the carribean
JTF Matthew
- Clay
We all gave some.some gave all.
I just say I'm retired (I am) and leave the 100% thing to me, myself & I.
As to combat PTSD vs non-combat... In the middle east, I did 3 months Kuwait, 7 in A-stan, 13 Iraq. Not an infantry guy, but was on 2 Advisor teams--so I definitely lived 'every Marine's a Rifleman...' at times with the added blessing (sarcasm) of being on combined patrols/missions with our 'partnered forces' ... (If you know.... you know 😉.
I gotta say, I had some high stress/pressure billets, a-hole bosses, and massive amounts of stress and high viz responsibility stateside, in garrison, as well, that is no joke.
I definitely can see, and have lived, situations where someone is in a high stress billet with a douche-bag, micro-manager, insecure prick from Hell, can be it's own PTSD. If you add some legit (not BS where someone is trying to get over) away from work issues, the MC, at least back in the day, was abso-f-ing-lutely not a caring kind of place, lol.
Man, if you want to reach out to me I could give you a rundown of non-combat mental health rating of my own. This involved whistleblowing on sexual assault and racism. The General of my state was even relieved of duty. It was a rough last 2-3 years in the same unit. These issues did get addressed and things got better for future soldiers. It was the best/worst time of my life. Send me your email if you want to hear my experience for yourself.
Apeal. Appeal. Appealllll! Look up law!
I keep my ratings from other vets because they can be the worst!!!!
Outstanding. That is all…
My unit used to Stage our teams out of Okinawa at Camp Shields. Used to hit Schwab, and Foster to visit my Corp buddies 🇺🇸
Kadena was by far the best base world wide besides Diego Garcia before the Gulf War staging and comms base 🇺🇸
Thanks for bringing back those great memories my friend ❤
🐸
Diego Garcia was where I first saw the giant coconut crabs. 😅
You are correct!
GED ? High School diploma?
If you’re really interested in my professional life you can connect with me on LinkedIn.
- Clay
Spot on
The doctors at the Va diagnosed me with anxiety and depression but said they cannot share my diagnosis with the compensation side of the Va. they can only treat
Are we still able to file for migraines secondary to Tinnitus, or has that already changed?
This is wrong ok multiple levels. Video already scheduled to post soon am seeing this. Stay tuned
- Clay
@@TheCivDiv Does that mean yes we can, or no we can't?
Mental health can be aggravated by military service. They get in trouble because they tell psychologists bullshit instead of their facts of life.
Stationed in Okinawa (1st Bn, 1st SFG, MI Det Torii Station) Nov ‘95 - Jun ‘00 (3 yr accompanied tour plus 2 extensions). Both my sons were born there.
I don’t roll that way bud. Is this how you hook them?
👍👍 Totally agree!!
Thank you....mine is such a case. From 40 years ago on my ship. It was a different time. Because I am non conflict I never asked for help but have battled what happened. I might file but don't want to seem...helpless
File.
Thanks Clay, 🙏🙏🙏🙏