Served nation, now forgotten veterans!

Veterans with mental illness deserve help with being part of society.  All of the advocates and government leaders who claim to care about veterans have ignored my pleas for help and change.  I will not allow us to be forgotten without a fight! I served my nation protecting the freedom of  people who do not seem to care.  I feel like a fool for having been a soldier.  Why did I willingly risk my life for a society that ignores veterans like me who developed "mental problems" because of army experience?  Instead of help or understanding I have been attacked because I was a veteran with problems. If I could change my past then I would have avoided the army and all the blame against my army experience, stigma, and mental illness.  I did not ask for my life to be ruined!

My normal doctors at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, or VA, seemed to think that drugs were all I ever needed.  However one of their compensation doctors had the following to say in va-award-mental-illness.pdf, which conflicts with my typical VA veteran medical care:

"The examiner stated that you suffer from Bipolar Disorder and currently at risk for a depressive episode given your current level of stress. You live under a great deal of internal tension and does not have a strong psychological structure to meet difficult environmental demands. Because you want to see yourself as not having a psychiatric disease, you will tend to become depressed when your illness becomes an issue in work or personal relationships. Thus you may swing from excessive engagement with others to chronic suspiciousness that often lapses into full-blown paranoia and social withdrawal. Your fragile psychological functioning places you at risk to easily disintegrate into acute psychiatric impairment. Complicating the rehabilitation process is the fact that you have a very limited emotional and social support system. It is anticipated that you will need lifelong psychiatric care and an environment of mild level stress to maintain your psychological integrity. The current psychiatric disorder is sufficient to cause clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, and psychological functioning. Your functioning capacities are, at present, limited, and point to fair, but fragile, long-term adjustment, and that with the aid of constant support from professional counselors"

- from va-award-mental-illness.pdf.

For more about being blamed for my army experience, see my evidence and experience as follows:
 

Mike's evidence & experience: 1. Army

2. Civic Group

3. State breaking law

4. Failed help '04

5. You can help

 

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