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At this time when Veteran unemployment is and so loftier and employers comment that they are wary of hiring vets–he decided to completely undermine all the skillful results working with Vets, so he could look like a hero–rather than really uplift the heroes. Shame on y'all, Dr Phil!
I am not speaking glibly. I am a Blue Star mother and military spouse. 2 of my daughters were serving with the U.S. Navy when "the world stopped on nine/xi" and one is disabled, receiving high tech, compassionate medical and mental health care from VA. Both daughters are honorably discharged veterans, completed degrees with their GI Bill monies, and were warned to watch for credible resources rather than people or organizations trying to await practiced by using Veterans.
I have 2 more than children serving on agile duty now. My son is a Marine and has served in gainsay zones multiple times. The USMC does a great chore providing family and loved ones with tons of information to detect appropriate, credible help for our heroes. My youngest daughter serves in Security Forces for the U.Southward. Air Strength and only finished a tour at the NATO base in Turkey, close to the unstable Syrian edge. They, too, provide data about multiple resources.
Dr Phil is often considered a fairly apparent resource, yet that day he completely misled a population of Americans that deserves, and in fact, earned more respect from him than this. I did note it was a repeat, re-showing is to my mind adding insult to injury.
Dr Phil should be ashamed. That show should spend at least a full show highlighting the real piece of work being done out there by the Department of Veterans Affairs and Wounded Warriors and Boston'due south Vet Run. . .the list is huge. It's the to the lowest degree they could practise. I am a thoroughly disappointed, former fan of that show.
Elizabeth Benson is a Blue Star female parent and war machine spouse.
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My name is Jim Stotts and I was diagnosed in 2010 with SC PTSD form my service aboard the USS Coral Ocean in the early years of the Viet Nam state of war. I was awarded a 50% SC disability from the VA and am soon pending a De Nova review of my claim for an increase. I cannot take anti-depressant drugs, then my Primary Intendance doctor at the Little Stone VA is helping me with my low with Vit B-12 injections and Vit D. I have not heard anyone on this blog mention the VA Vet Centers. The Vet Centers were started in 1979 as an outreach program for Viet Nam vets who were not getting aid for their PTSD because they were hesitant to go to the VA. A licensed Vet Center therapist travels to my dwelling house town of Mountain View, AR. twice a month, and I receive private and group therapy for my PTSD. I've been an active fellow member of the Vet Eye program since 2008, and the treatment I accept received from them has saved my life and marriage. If any Vet has problems getting assistance from their local VA with their PTSD,Please look into the VA's Vet Centre Program. If you think you lot might take problems with PTSD, please don't recollect it's going to only "go away" past its cocky. Call your local VA or Vet Center and get an evaluation,asap. It could save your life or marriage like it did mine.
Jim Stotts, US Navy veteran
I've been told past multiple doctors (outside of the VA) that they believe I have a strong chance of having PTSD considering the mental land that I'm at. I went to the VA PTSD therapist and afterward literally 3 minutes of questioning, he said I didn't have it and was sent to Mental Wellness. I don't believe I was seen properly and wasn't given any chance in heck to be diagnosed for PTSD. After going back to talk to them, they didn't even want to see me. Once and done apparently.
Eric, don't accept that for an answer. Go back and ask to speak to the Director of the PTSD Dispensary, who might be the Director of the Mental Wellness Clinic, and tell him or her you felt the 3-minute interview wasn't sufficient time for the therapist to develop your example properly. Insist you lot be seen by someone else who will take the time to fully develop your example, review the testify from outside physicians, and make an unbiased opinion based on the DSM Iv criteria (the DSM Four) is the manual all health care providers use to diagnosis dissimilar mental health illnesses).
Brand certain you get the exterior physicians to write messages stating their observations and diagnoses, forth with any prognosis, brusk or long-term. Whatsoever other show you can provide – orders for deploying to a combat zone or to whatever state of affairs put you in a position of developing PTSD, statements from others, including your spouse, parents, friends, or other family, who can describe the difference in your behaviors prior to and later the menstruation when you believe your PTSD began manifesting itself.
If yous don't have all that, get it. Get it now.
The most important matter: before taking my or anyone else'south advice, call or get see your nearest veteran'south service representative. This could exist someone from the VFW, DAV, American Legion, AMVETS, Paralyzed Veterans of America, your land Veterans Benefits Office, or many others. Each of these organizations has people known as Veteran'southward Service Officers whose job it is to assist you assemble all that show and file a claim for benefits, which include both disability compensation and handling for injuries or illnesses caused by your service to our Nation. Employ them to help you – it's what they do and almost of them are very skilful at it!
Proficient luck, my Brother!
Dr. Dave Hatfield
SGM, US Army (Retired)
Wow. If I didn't know any amend I would swear y'all were talking about me. I was seen by a therapist at the VA in North Piddling Rock. After several months she finally told me i was suffering from PTSD. I so put in a merits. 3 Years later I finally saw the evaluating dr.. After a few minutes of the interview I was told she was finished. a year later she denied me. What a joke. I am appealing but how this doc thinks she can know annihilation about me in a few minutes time is totally absurd.
I have had nothing but first-class, first-class treatment from the VA since I retired in 1999. I have received excellent mental health care since 1992 and continue to receive information technology. I tin can't say enough great things about the VA. Only, at the same time, I hear the people who are not receiving groovy intendance and I really feel bad for them. Anybody, every Vet should be treated with individualized care. If you are not, work up the chain of command with letters, write your congressman/woman or senator, who will respond to your event. The VA is run by people, just like you lot and me. If that person doesn't care about their job, you lot, or anything else, your services will reflect this attitude. I think this is what has happened in many cases hither. I besides know at that place has been a task freeze and the electric current VA workers are over worked. I wish people who are non getting the care they feel they deserve would pursue the event by contacting that person's supervisor, the hospital director, and anyone else in that chain. Someone needs to know what is going on. You're telling me here on this blog, but you need to become the correct people'due south attention. And that is not to say that you lot accept non already done this. Just you need to pursue the thing until you get the right treatment! Why should I get great treatment and you don't? I'm not whatsoever more than special than you are. We should all be treated the aforementioned. I think Secretary Shinseki is doing a great job and that the VA is so much better than it used to be. Information technology took my dad (now deceased), decades to get a claim for Amanuensis Orange. But at present the VA acknowledges that it really did cause problems and is paying claims. When my dad first put in a claim back in the early 70s, the government would non even acknowledge information technology existed. Thanks for listening, and for all my fellow Vets, thank you for serving this country!
I take written several letters to congressmen, senators, doctors, and even the principal of staff at the VA hospital in Portland. I accept requested my husband'due south medical records but accept but rec'd nurses reports and the surgical report. I take not rec'd the doctors notes their diagnosis reports and treatment reports from them. I feel that because of the wait that my husband had to endure during the second transplant that they realize that they made a mistake and that is why they do non acknowledge mine messages. So far i accept not rec'd whatever kind of acknowledgement from anyone I have contacted. i will proceed on trying and sending letters until I go a response as to why my husband had to die. He did non die of his pre-existing liver problems he died because he developed Sispis which i did not know about until later on his death which was on the autopsy report. I don't feel that he got the treatment he deserved and never will. How did he get the Sepsis why, you get this infection in a control enviroment which is the hospital. Something went wrong and I will pursue information technology until I get some answers. I have contacted attorneys just because information technology is a government issue they don't want to touch a case like this. Too y'all merely have a short window to file a claim. And then I have done many letter of the alphabet writings. I found this page and i thought it was a adept place to tell my story, not because i just wanted to accident off steam. I am but non telling you I promise I take let anybody know what happened to my married man. I take seen many people suffer because of liver dieseases and I have seen the hope and the disapointments in their lives. I take seen happeness likewise from individuals who have had transplants and they proceed to live their lives satisfactory, but on the other mitt I have seen hope in their eyes and sadness hoping that they would exist the next one to get a liver or kidney simply to be pushed back on the list because someone else were sicker, which I empathize also. I was my husbands caregiver for four years and spent time with others for several months waiting for their chance to live another x years or more. I have seen our vets fight with the VA just to go assistance. I feel that they put trainees in this field and it is all funded past the government and peoples taxes. And then mistakes are rare but when information technology happens to you it hits abode really hard. I am not putting downwardly our Vets they are the tops in my life they deserve better. Its the people who run the VA that makes these rules rather they accept a staff of large or small they still take to take care of our Vets. My…
I have a coworker that successfully sued the VA over her husbands death. People would would tell her, "you're crazy, you'll never win." Not merely did she win, the VA really admitted wrongdoing. Now that is unheard, correct? Don't give upwardly, at that place is someone out there that will take your example. For every bit much excellent care that the VA provides, there are just as many mistakes and cover ups. I spend five days a week at a VA facility, you'd be amazed at what goes on. I am very proactive in the care that I receive, I don't inquire I demand. My VA is staff by tons of residents, I demand that they give their report to the attention medico in my presence. I want to make certain that zero is missing when the attending validates/disagrees with the residents conclusion. I a resident tell me, "I don't like to prescribe narcotics for your condition." Come up on, I've been taking these meds for my condition that were prescribe by the caput Dr of the clinic. Allow'southward but say, my meds were not changed, and I gave articulate instructions to never schedule me with that Dr again.
I wish I could contact me. Is in that location whatsoever way??
I cannot annotate on what Dr. Phil did on his show i did non picket it. My annotate is this..My hubby was a patient for 3 years with the VA medical eye in Portland Or. They made all the decisions about my husband'southward intendance while he was ill. My story is: My husband had a liver transplant in March 2009, withing a few months after the transplant the liver stopped operation. The VA transplant team had stints enplanted in him for the drainage considering the liver was not functioning properly. His offset transplant was a DCD liver and I understand that they do not do those anymore. Any, the VA hospital put my hubby back on the transplant listing and he waited for 2 years to become another transplant meanwhile having to have those stints replaced every three months meaning trips back in along to Portland from San Diego. He bacame very ill losing rapid weight and having to change bandages daily, he was in constant pain in his stomach. Finally in September 2011 they chosen and told him that he was number 1 on the list and to get to Portland asap. He had his 2nd transplant and it was wonderful he felt great for a little while. A few weeks afterward he developed an infection. They treated him with many antibiotics but the infection was not responding to the antibiotics. He had seizures several times, bank in forth to intensive care then back to the ninth floor once again and again. Finally afterward four months in the hospital the transplant team came in and informed u.s.a. that the antiobitics were not responding to the infection. They ask him if he would consider a third transplant and that the VA does not practise third transplants only that they would contact Pittsburg to see if they would, to this day I accept never heard what actually happened to that plan. My married man was sent dwelling house to San Diego to the VA hospital and later on we planned to take him habitation. Unfortunately, two days subsequently my husband arrived at the VA hospital in San Diego he died. Information technology was a stupor to me considering the Dr. told my husband that he had six months to a year to alive but never told me his wife and caregiver. I was in total shocked most his death. I am very disapointed with the VA transplant team in Portland they allowed my married man to suffer for three years while that kickoff transplanted liver was rottening in his body. They should have washed a transplant equally soon after they found out that the liver was not working merely they did non they saturday on hoping it would boot in as one team fellow member mentioned. My husband contacted Hepititus during the Viet-Nam era. I am appalled at how he was treated. I…
I am a Vietnam Vet that is rated 100% disabled for PTSD. I thank God that the VA had a system that treated PTSD. I went through a Nat'l Center for PTSD in W Oasis, CT back in the early on 90'southward and if it wasn't for them I would still be walking effectually thinking I was crazy and I was the only i feeling that mode. People condemn the VA system but they don't actually see the services they provide to the states Vet'south. I couldn't live without them. Dr Phil is a joke….if it wasn't for Oprah he would be a nobody. He lives off other people's problems and exploits them to his advantage and makes it await like he is the helping them. What a poor excuse for a man and proposed DR.
I too have PTSD, and ANY public discussion of it is welcomed! I like Dr Phil and he is a smart, honest "physician"; nevertheless, I concord that his staff failed him past not doing enough enquiry on the subject area.
I also agree with many, that at that place are those who like me deny the effects of PTSD on their lifes and the people around them.
I am thankful for the VA of today, for when I was discharged in 1970, the VA was cipher more than than a nursing home. They have came a long way in 40 years…..
Keep up the expert piece of work and continue to sensationalize mental illness, Dr Phil!
The Roseburg, Oregon VA does a horrible job with PTSD and hires people who don't believe it exist, but adjacent to Dr. Phil, Dr Phil is a pile of dog doo doo. Shame on him! Anyone who profits from a veterans disabling condition needs to be confronted by Jesus.
I give thanks your family for it'southward service and I am very happy to hear that they are being well cared for. However, I take to agree with Emily'southward post, many, MANY are beingness let down by the system. My husband is i of them. We have tried and tried to get him into treatment for his 100% disabling PTSD and all they've done is throw pills at him, at one time more than 120 a week! Whatever and all resources we have found have been through my hard fought efforts and internet research. I am grateful that my husband has medical coverage through the VA (as NOBODY else will embrace him with his electric current medical needs, nor can he get life insurance because of the pre-concieved notions and medications that get with his ptsd) just what he receives is a far weep from adequate care. If he left his mental health care to the VA, he would be seen 4 times a year. That'southward the best they can offer united states. Every bit it is, nosotros seek treatment outside of the VA where he'due south never told "you're young, you'll get over it." Yes, that's a direct quote from the head of the local VA's ptsd department. Nosotros, similar so many others, have lost faith in the VA.
I exercise not know where the people alive or what VA y'all use, but I'yard seen 2x/mo and was sent to the MHRRTP program in Tuscaloosa. I have absolutely no complaint about the VA mental health system. I've seen them work with Iraq and Transitional islamic state of afghanistan veterans and they have a great organization. I'm sorry that the VA is not meeting your needs, but be aware that you tin get to whatever VA you want to. If the closest one to you isn't working for you, go to the next ane.
Americans love their vets similar Michael Vick loves his dogs; as long equally they make a turn a profit and are dead.
I sent an electronic mail to the Dr. Phil show pointing out their sin of omission in not saying anything about the help available from the VA. This help has been around since Vietnam or before. They havemade many advances in tyhis field. To engagement I hasve not heard a single word from them. SHAME
Distressing to say the guy gives me the!#$^%Y_ Its like many things that are irresolute in this world . Just to which Boob tube not to mention all the other #&*&^%$( nosotros need more people to come together .Look at all the other Races in this world, take your selection,color, the way talk ,wait, eat,, or what always,they are very family loving people. We don t need talk shows similar them people.Trust in GOD,Church, Family unit……
Hello,
Dr. Phil is Non a Doctor! He is an chaser / entertainer!!!! He is just for enertainment period aught else!!!
Most persons on T.V. calling themselves doctors are able to practice then because they have a P.H.D. or Professional degree of any kind, which according to university standards allows them to utilize the D.R. in front of their names. I could have a P.H.D. in basket weaving and still be able to telephone call myself D.R. John . . . Most of the idiots on television are nothing more professional entertainers. They are lucky if they have a PHD in basket weaving.
I have never been a fan of Dr.Phil and from what you wrote I understand the consequence to be that he did not recognise the VA or other organisations that offering help and is parading the injured. What defenseless my attention was your comment about those who back up the heros. For every bit much good as the VA and other organisations are doing to help our soldiers with physical and mental traumas, in that location are too many going without needed assistance. Many are left alone and not helped with their affliction or how to transition into the civilian world. My blood brother is one…a Marine who served many tours overseas and who suffers with PTSD and TBI. This non only effects him, simply it furnishings his married woman and children besides. Come up on VA and others, cheers for what you practise, but realise that you lot aren't thousand saviors either. In that location is more than need than there are resources and peradventure calling for help (in whatsoever way that may exist heard) and making the matter known (and then that information technology is non stigmatised) will bring more to the table who may be able to assistance.
I do thank your children Elizabeth for their service to our state and am thankful that they are receiving care and back up that they need.
I hope you sent this to the Broadcasters and advertisers that support Dr. Phil's show. It'd exist nice to become this set right. – Retired Navy Nurse
This Phil grapheme is only on tv show considering oprah felt sorry for the yoyo. He needs to get down on his knees and pray for forgiveness from all the Veterans that he showed (obama) distain and his haughty attitude. He can be replaced with a tin of PORK Northward BEANS and definitely exist missed. He is simply another hack that someone gave a hand so he could weasel into the talk show business. Forget this clown.
I completely agree! I saw this episode when it originally aired. Through out the evidence I kept waiting for Dr. Phil to mention the numerous resources out there for verterans, peculiarly the VA healthe care system. He but mentioned the two private facilities that the two gentlemen were being sent to by Dr. Phil. I am a naval vet with PTSD and have had the best treatment out there for PTSD over the past 17 year–within the VA and there are so many more! I was so angry with the prove that I wrote to them. This episode only showed me how niggling research he and his team put into it.
Never, and I mean never, have I idea Dr. Phil was worth a dime, or a 2d of my time. So this show but proves my point.
Dr. Phil and Grandstand are synonymous. Were it not for Oprah, he'd all the same be digging ditches. I've never liked him, his advice or his show. Talk about using people!
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The real work the VA does. Is the VA doing some practiced piece of work? Yep for some veterans. For myself I have received adept intendance over the years from the VA Wellness Intendance system regarding my disabilties. Information technology also helped to have a practiced doctor who was on staff at the Houston VAMC and also at Baylor College of Medicine who as well consulted with my married woman'south department. Having said that I accept witnessed and heard of also many times the Dept of Veterans Diplomacy dropping the ball. VA public relations folks accept a job to practise and most of the time its to brand the VA await proficient. Forget the FACT there is no HUD available housing for homeless single vets or if there is housing information technology is inadequate and below standards. None in Polk Canton, nor Iowa City, nor Sioux Metropolis, Dubuque, Council Bluffs. This is one program that is a JOKE!
And so in that location is the upshot of veterans receiving timely intendance. Or when it comes to mental health issues for vets in Iowa, the programs that are available are inadequate and they get shipped off to St. Deject, MN.
So for all of the rosy comments above, a bunch of you VA Boosters demand to get out into the cities and land and start talking with veterans and you are going to see and hear a different story. Offset and foremost take off your rose colored spectacles.
I go to the CA Long Beach Hospital in Ca. and must say that the handling I've received has been excellent for PTSD and heart ailments. It's a kickoff rate facility. The doc who performed a cardiac ablation on me in La Jolla actually trained with the physician who invented the procedure in France and could be training other doctors for a great deal of money nonetheless he works at the VA.