Hi,
My wife is a disabled vet with PTSD and Bi-Polar disorder. She is currently receiving disability for those and other health related problems.

She has had a really hard time since getting out in early 2004. They have had done a lot of test and psych evals and on her and determined her condition was aggravated in the service and she ended up with PTSD as a result of some major things that happened medically to her. She is totally unemployable and cannot handle being out in the world around a lot of people and dealing with people she either gets shy, scared or has anxiety attacks. We have tried volunteering for her and I have tried taking her on a couple of vacations to clear her mind. It works for a while then the anxiety returns and insomnia etc. She usually will bow out of volunteering after 2 times..

She recently went to the ER believing she had a heart attack. She did have numbness on her left side of her body radiating up to her jaw and then she said she felt her face go numb and muscles not work were she couldn't smile. They said she had a rare headache that mimics a heart attack.

She is having to go up to get a Nuero Psych through the VA system. They are not great at actually helping the patients and are well-known for trying to get rid of the vets by decreasing their benefits and bucking them out of the system. Thanks Obama.:/ Cutting military= cutting the Vets access to care. We already have a hard enough time trying to get vets the help they need.

She is totally nervous and very depressed and anxiety ridden about it. They need me to be there as well so they can talk to me too. I help her manage her issues everyday; ontop of helping her take care of 2 small kids and I'm working full-time and going to college. It's a lot! We have to both go and my son and daughter will have to be taken out of school this day because we live too far away to have time to get them out of school. So our kids will be with us.

Has anyone on here ever dealt with the VA nuero psych and do they really take away your benefits even if you are permanently disabled. They say the do not re-evaluate if you are permanent. She doesn't understand what they are doing for her.. She wants to know if it would be to help her with the numbness she is experiencing in her body/mind or if they are evaluating her all over again. Believe me it has been a grueling 8 years of test over and over again till' they were able to award her with her disability.

She has had her records brought before VA panel of doctors in Washington DC and a panel of 10 VA doctors locally to determine her disability. She is worried that she will not get the care she deserves and desperately needs and wants. That she will get lost in the system to deal with her issues again all by herself. She has good and bad days. Memory loss, anxiety attacks, numbness in her body, depression, mania, anger issues, phobias, etc.

There is no way she can work and I really feel for her. Is there anything I can do to help her out to try to get through this? Any thoughts and knowledge would be helpful. What are they looking for?? Any help would be great. I don't have any trust in the VA system.