More health care is needed- This is a good start..

*Read the executive summary from the UMMIHS(Medicine Institute for Health Studies) below... pdf

Mental HealthCare for Returning Veterans

quote from summary:
:["Some roundtable participants
expressed concern that efforts to
meet the demand for care by veterans
from Iraq and Afghanistan could
“squeeze” the care available to veterans
of Korea and Vietnam."]:quote

Their concern then is certainly substantiative now.
I am priority one , 100% SC combat PTSD, and have been in ongoing treatment for 19 years.

I am beginning to realize this "squeeze" at my VAH,

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Mental HealthCare for Returning Veterans

Thanks for your link!

Yawanna get my personal take on this one? There was already a squeeze on, for a lot of us. I haven't been able to get decent health care for over a decade.

I am now rated 70%, which you might think would make a difference, and maybe it will, but in order for a difference to happen there also has to be available resources. That includes people competant in whatever area we need the care in. Today I sat and talked with a therapist --initial visit meant to familiarize him with my case so he could set up a treatment plan-- and though I had already told him IN WRITING my main goal in coming to therapy right now is to get enough help to finish school I had to sit through him asking me THREE TIMES --the same question each time, the same inflections, the same everything, over the course of the talk "Can you do this?"

I am so angry I could spit little green apples. I feel like walking up to him (wherever he is at the moment) and yelling "You already know I came to you for help DOING THIS. Tell me you can help, tell me you can't, but don't fr**kin ask me THREE times sounding like you're saying I can't possibly manage it "Can you get through school?" all by myself alone. I wouldn't fr**kin BE HERE if I didn't think I needed help DOING IT!!!!!!!!!

At suck times, it's hard to see how much good you get from the VA even when you;re not being "squoze"

Prismatic, I'm not laughing AT you but WITH you. That story is so laughably - and pathetically - true that all anyone can do is laugh. Well, that or the other extreme, which is unacceptable.

I hope you've been able to find some assistance - perhaps from the mental health folks at the school you are/will be attending? Usually, that's free or at very reduced cost.