No it is not normal to combine the two as far as I know. Dave is the expert when it comes to claims. I have PTSD service connected due to MST. My husband was in a car crash in 1980 and lost his sight, able to smell and the entire front lobe of his brain. Mike can function in a sighted world. He has things that he can not do due to his TBI. We make a great team! Main thing is to get treatment, STAT from someone trained in PTSD!! Sally

Hi all

Well, we just found out today that my husband will be chaptered out of the army. Paperwork is going to JAG tomorrow. (He has PTSD, TBI, and depression) Of course no one is telling us anything, other than the paperwork is going to JAG, can anyone tell me how to find out any information about being chaptered out... I have no clue about this. My questions are...What kind of discharge is this (other than honorable, or honorable)?, benefits, severence pay? Any info. would be a big, huge help.
Thanks to all

You need to run to the nearest JAG office and to the nearest medical office and to your congressman as fast as you can.

Being Chaptered out of the Army is not being med boarded. If your husband has been diagnosed with PTSD and with TBI, he should not be chaptered, he should be med boarded. You need to get your congressman and Senator involved ASAP.

I don't mean to alarm you but this is a serious deal and urgent. If your husband is chaptered out, he will not be entitled to tri care, sep pay etc unless he has already been in for his twenty, in which case they would just retire him so I'll assume he hasn't.

Rumor has it that the Army has been chaptering PTSD cases out of the Army so they don't have to do the med boards, compensation etc. The soldier is chaptered out for a personality disorder and thus loses access to benefits and in some cases medical retirement.

Good luck - fight very hard and very fast. Your husbands command will not do this. If they are chaptering him, they have given up on him. You two must fight.

Keep us up to date. I check this board daily and I can give what insight I can and some good info on the regs. Tell me what chapter they want to get him out on and we'll go from there.

Thanks for your response. We discussed the situation, and talked with the family about it, and he is just so sick and tired of the treatment he has been getting that he just wants to get on with life. He has proudly served his country in Desert Storm and in Iraq (with a break in service). He will be joining my family's business, with full benefits and all that goes with that.
This has been so mentally and emotionally draining. He just wants this mess over with so we can move on.
I cannot tell all of you enough how much I appreciate the help and advice you have given me, and for letting me rant and rave when I needed to.

Roxie, Make sure that your husband gets mental health health treatment by someone trained in PTSD. I can understand not wanting anything to do with the military and VA. It took me 30 plus years to seek help. Please do not wait that long! Sally

Sally
That was part of the discussion we had, and we both agree that even though he will be out, the treatments need to continue. I actually feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders.
I wish I knew more about how long this will take to be done. I like to have things planned, and I don't like not knowing what's going on.
Thank you for your advice

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For more information on this topic check this out.

Interesting research but as has been pointed out before regarding this study (remember its 4 years old) the broad assumption made is that the stressor event and the TBI event are one and the same.

In most cases in Iraq, there are multiple explosive events causing TBIs in individual soldiers. The reason many soldiers are returning with PTSD is multiple prolonged exposures to multiple stressor events.

The reality is, unlike the study where the PTSD stressor and the TBI event were one and the same, here we have multiple TBI type events and multiple PTSD stressors in the same individuals over the long term.

The question is - can these maladies be treated independently of each other or do the affects of one mask or even bleed in to the other and thus require new modalities of treatment.

Please see my post above for more information.

Thanks.

Hello i am an Army wife and my husband was injured in Iraq in 2007.....I noticed alot of changes in him and he was so confused as to why he could not get help He has PTSD & TBI. He has left me and my kids and now wants a divorce, I don't want this to happen Can someone tell me is it the PTSD that is doing this! Please help.

t may be, or the changes have changed his desires. I think that you need to seek some help to figure out how to deal with these issues.

hey guys and gals. the boyfriend is getting checked for a TBI on july 16th. they think he's got both ptsd and a tbi.
anyone with a tbi have symptoms other than forgetting things?

When I have questions about something, I enter the topic and search the internet for information. Mike has a TBI from a head on car accident in 1980. He lost his sight ,and total front lobe of his brain. He has anger issues but has never hurt me and or our family. Get health treatment from provider that knows what they are doing. A neurologist is the person that could answer your some of your questions.

I recieved a penetrating head wound in RVN in 1968. The left parietal lobe and the occipital lobes of my brain were amputated out of a 4x5cm whole in my skull. The amnesia was very hard to deal with. Although I was ambulatory, I could read, but I could not write or spell. I could add, but I could not subtract. I could not remember my left hand from my right hand. I had what they call "geographic aphasia", I was always lost. I could not remember the love of my mother. I was a grown man with memory of when I was 5 years old. The VA told me they did not have enough money to send me back to 1st grade and that I should go and get a job. What a nightmare. The grand mal siezures subsided after a few years. I was over-medicated on anti-depressants 3 times and had 2 heart attacks. I am a Ch.61 retiree with Medicare and Tricare but the VA will not stop harrassing me. Any help you could be in this regard would be appreciated.

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the VA will not stop harrassing me

Please explain this statement.

They have contacted my priest. I live in a small town. They have tried to make people in town be afraid of me. That I am someone on a hairs trigger ready to go off. That I am dangerous to other people. I have been going to the VA for years and they never helped me in any way. So, I started to use my medicare and Tricare benefits and I am being well taken care of. I do not want to be used in any more PTSD experiments.

Try to assemble the best group of people that you can do get some kind of order here. It is always important to have the best team of people working for you. Never has there been such an opportunity for people to participate in the best that is offered to all of us.

Thank you for your kind support and understanding.

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Originally posted by ali_squidz:
hey guys and gals. the boyfriend is getting checked for a TBI on july 16th. they think he's got both ptsd and a tbi.
anyone with a tbi have symptoms other than forgetting things?

That is a problem with people with brain injury. The injury causes damage to areas of the brain that store or process information or the electrical transmission systems used to move the information within the brain. Some of these problems can be worse with stress, weather or other factors.

My wife has TBI from a bike accident before we met. A good neurologist is critical to manage care. Tests can evaluate where the damage is and determine the appropriate course of treatment.

My neurologist told me they did not have enough money to treat me. The memory part of my brain being gone after all. I was "on my own." That I would never be able to remember anyway. I was a waste of federal money to treat me.