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how does that work, does my real doctor say "yeah totally service related" then it gets submitted to VA and then they deny the claim like 2 years later? thats my understanding of it and I also should get my uh big rating upped
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The VA just told me to take ibuprofen for what was two bulged disks, so I decided to use my health insurance to go to a real doctor that gave me an actual treatment plan.
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If motrin isn't good enough for you than you just don't have enough heart
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Mustang posted:If motrin isn't good enough for you than you just don't have enough heart Sir I'm not in your platoon you won't have to brief it
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mods change my name posted:how does that work, does my real doctor say "yeah totally service related" then it gets submitted to VA and then they deny the claim like 2 years later? If it's an initial claim it might not take long. Mine was submitted in June or July by my VSO and I had my rating and backpay by the beginning of October. Do it, you earned it.
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Mustang posted:If motrin isn't good enough for you than you just don't have enough heart so what's going on with you man is it time for me to update your avatar with a skull yet
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I'm just exhausted from living at work for the last year, wondering what tasks the end of the day briefing my superiors go to will think up for me to do. Occasionally offering push back on some of this bullshit and constantly being told "no, do it anyway." Not trusting anyone that outranks me with any of the concerns or personal problems I might be having because despite the words that come out of their mouths about "taking care of soldiers" it's pretty obvious none of them give a single gently caress. I've been looking back on the past year of busting my rear end and wearing myself out for my unit and wondering what the gently caress I did it for. A pat on the back for a good job done? The only thing I've gotten from the past year that means anything to me is the respect of my soldiers and NCOs, who are also the only people in my unit that I trust. I've definitely developed a drinking problem which I am not at all willing to discuss with anyone that outranks me. I'm also reasonably certain I'm an insomniac now and have a hard time falling asleep at night. Transitioning to staff has just made me realize that everything is worse than I ever thought it was and that nothing is going to get better and that the delusional LTC I work for is never going to change and that nothing he says about "taking care of soldiers" means poo poo.
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Mustang posted:I'm just exhausted from living at work for the last year, wondering what tasks the end of the day briefing my superiors go to will think up for me to do. Occasionally offering push back on some of this bullshit and constantly being told "no, do it anyway." Not trusting anyone that outranks me with any of the concerns or personal problems I might be having because despite the words that come out of their mouths about "taking care of soldiers" it's pretty obvious none of them give a single gently caress. Have you considered not trying as hard? You're getting out, why the hell are you busting your rear end?
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Mustang posted:I'm just exhausted from living at work for the last year, wondering what tasks the end of the day briefing my superiors go to will think up for me to do. Occasionally offering push back on some of this bullshit and constantly being told "no, do it anyway." Not trusting anyone that outranks me with any of the concerns or personal problems I might be having because despite the words that come out of their mouths about "taking care of soldiers" it's pretty obvious none of them give a single gently caress. AV/Post
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They just sent out yet another command climate survey to my battalion Mustang. I guess they're hoping to get that title back from yours of lowest morale! I know I did my part. On the other hand, now that I have a car again, I can escape this hell hole and go enjoy the PNW. I made the mistake of not traveling around Alaska enough when I was there, I will not make that mistake again here.
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Mar 8, 2018 11:05
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Mustang posted:I'm just exhausted from living at work for the last year, wondering what tasks the end of the day briefing my superiors go to will think up for me to do. Occasionally offering push back on some of this bullshit and constantly being told "no, do it anyway." Not trusting anyone that outranks me with any of the concerns or personal problems I might be having because despite the words that come out of their mouths about "taking care of soldiers" it's pretty obvious none of them give a single gently caress. This needs to go into one of the stickied threads.  On the bright side at least you'll get Post 9/11 bennies + VA disability fun bucks for your sadbrains/alcohol abuse.
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Mustang posted:I've definitely developed a drinking problem which I am not at all willing to discuss with anyone that outranks me. I'm also reasonably certain I'm an insomniac now and have a hard time falling asleep at night. Go to behavioral health or a private psychologist NOW. Trust me, so much easier to nip that poo poo in the early stages.
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Mustang posted:I'm just exhausted from living at work for the last year, wondering what tasks the end of the day briefing my superiors go to will think up for me to do. Occasionally offering push back on some of this bullshit and constantly being told "no, do it anyway." Not trusting anyone that outranks me with any of the concerns or personal problems I might be having because despite the words that come out of their mouths about "taking care of soldiers" it's pretty obvious none of them give a single gently caress. My LT wrote an article in the marine corps times calling out the bullshit in his unit and it owned. If you write an article things will either 1) get better (lol) or 2) you'll no longer be in charge of anything
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yeah dude get help. we all gently caress with you and think a lot of the stuff you're going through is funny but we definitely don't want to see you end up in a bad way. even if you think you've got a handle on it and you won't get to the point of no return, do something to try to help yourself. we are a good soundboard but i don't think any of us are qualified to really help stop the downward spiral that you seem to be headed towards.
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Mustang, I'll have some weed waiting for you when you get out.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Go to behavioral health or a private psychologist NOW. Trust me, so much easier to nip that poo poo in the early stages. Reiterating this but also make sure its a private doctor or one of the vet centers if they'll see you. Notice I said vet center, not VA. Dunno how it works for AD but ya, find someone you can speak freely to and process the poo poo you are going through. The answer is not in that loving bottle.
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Violent tremors and nightmares are at the bottom of that bottle.
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Resign
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Don't drink so much that you poo poo yourself on a morning PT run like one of my baby Joes did. On the plus side though if you do manage to do that you get a paid vacation to a drying out facility. The one in Alabama looked surprisingly nice, especially so for Alabama.
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You’ll never get that pat on the back FYI. But you’ll never stop searching
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Even though I’m a koolaid drinker, I agree with the get private help train of thought. You only get one life, no what matter what you may think of the Army, eventually it won’t be there and you will be left only with yourself. Do the hard work on yourself now so that you enjoy life that much more once you are out. You don’t want to be on a downward spiral on the way out.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Go to behavioral health or a private psychologist NOW. Trust me, so much easier to nip that poo poo in the early stages. EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Go to behavioral health or a private psychologist NOW. Trust me, so much easier to nip that poo poo in the early stages. EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Go to behavioral health or a private psychologist NOW. Trust me, so much easier to nip that poo poo in the early stages. EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Go to behavioral health or a private psychologist NOW. Trust me, so much easier to nip that poo poo in the early stages. EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Go to behavioral health or a private psychologist NOW. Trust me, so much easier to nip that poo poo in the early stages. yo im not trying to bandwagon here but god drat dude go talk to someone. I waited a year after my dad died to talk to someone about my depression and i wasted so much time. you don't have to feel this way, all jokes aside. go talk to someone.
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Hey Mustang, I’m just some dumbass civilian with brokebrains that hangs out in here but seriously please go talk to someone about what you are going through. I’ve read your posts about your career for years and while they’ve brought me some good schadenfreude I don’t want to see you actually spiral downwards, which is definitely where drinking and no sleep will lead.
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You guys are right. I’m going to schedule appointments and if they get in the way of making sure tasks get done on time than that’s just the way it’s going to have to be
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Mustang posted:You guys are right. I’m going to schedule appointments and if they get in the way of making sure tasks get done on time than that’s just the way it’s going to have to be Are you getting out soon? Soonish?
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Mustang posted:You guys are right. I’m going to schedule appointments and if they get in the way of making sure tasks get done on time than that’s just the way it’s going to have to be you're in the lovely position of giving poo poo about your job in a profession that will beat you down for giving a poo poo. worry about yourself and your own health before you worry about your job, because you can't do one if you don't have the other.
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Moving from mockery to genuine concern was a hit I did not want from the army thread bong 
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its curtains for Kevin posted:Moving from mockery to genuine concern was a hit I did not want from the army thread bong You're right. Mustang, have you worked on your resiliency by hunting the good stuff?
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:You're right. Mustang, have you worked on your resiliency by hunting the good stuff? Triggered
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Work hard to go to Ranger school and get a slot at RASP so you can take a platoon in 3rd Batt and feel that disappointment all over again
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Mustang posted:You guys are right. I’m going to schedule appointments and if they get in the way of making sure tasks get done on time than that’s just the way it’s going to have to be Also please note I said psychologist and not psychiatrist. The latter is great if you and your provider are decently aware of what's going on and you're best served by drugs and therapy. Psychologist is a better starting point because unlike a psychiatrist, they actually discuss your issues at length and delve and the primary purpose isn't to determine appropriate medication.
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Mustang posted:and if they get in the way of making sure tasks get done This part is where you will realize that your chain of command gives an even less of a gently caress about your well-being than you can imagine yet at this point.
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Yeah this is one of those things no command will give a poo poo about. Just remember you have to live with yourself a lot longer than you have to live with them.
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At least my superiors give a poo poo about me. I don’t know how else I’d juggle this. We currently have one car only, and I use it to drive to the clinic for my light duty. Past week I was seriously struggling to walk, and was in massive pain. The LTC got me home, and sent someone to get my wife so she can drive the mustang home so we won’t ve car less. On the days I’ve needed supervision, and my wife has had work or school related issues, there have been all kinds of people in my house supervising my medicated rear end. And I was supposed to go to work today, but I was hurting, so I called again and just asked over the phobe if I could keep laying down. It was no trouble. I can see how every point of this could have been a parallel universe of miserable recovery, but so far pretty good. Glad you going to get help. Also remember, MFLC doesn’t need you to have family. Or life lol. They are universally badass and they cover the tracks between gay army and the visits.
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this experience you have is fleeting ask mustang!
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Vahakyla posted:At least my superiors give a poo poo about me. I don’t know how else I’d juggle this. Mustang posted:We had a command climate survey for my company recently and the worst thing anyone had to say was that its hosed up we don't have our own printer and have to use BNs. The civilian dude that put together the results said that he usually only see's that in the SOF units on post. Not that we're super high speed or anything just that morale is pretty high.
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MFLC is good but you can only do 12 sessions if the therapist is by the book. I got lucky with mine and they saw me through my whole process. Ymmv
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As a line medic I send a bunch of dudes to MFLC and none of them ever abide by that 12 rule.
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Mustang is a goon in a well. He's treating the symptoms with booze and complaining here instead of treating the root cause of the issue, which is giving a gently caress.
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