Question - Please Help

[elijahputnam]

I was in the Air Force from 2001 - 2004. My room mate which I actually got a long with ended up killing 2 people off base and robbing a store. Ever since then, I have struggled with Anxiety and Panic attacks. I was discharge from the military in 2004 and given a General Under Honorable Conditions. This event caused my to lose focus in the military and caused me to mess up a lot at work, so they let me go. At that time, I was young and did not know how to get help for what I was going through. I have been taking Valium and have been treated and diagnosed with PTSD and Anxiety disorder. I know that it came from this event. The question that I have is this, Am i eligible to received VA Disability Benefits for this problem. I have a lot of depression, have anger problems, sleeping problem and some OCD. I hardly think about this event anymore but I know that the event started it in the military. Please give advice if you can. I did not get this from being in combat. I was only deployed to Kyrgyzstan in the military.

 

[Anna Banana]

You should call the VA. My last psychiatrist went to work for the local VA hospital and he's good friends with my therapist, so through him I found out that since you were in the service, you should be eligible for any services they have. I asked because my two brothers went through a lot of the same stuff I did (growing up in our house was a war zone in itself) and they were both in the service (non-combat), but don't have money for help outside of the VA. Maybe someday, they will seek the help they need through the VA...Good Luck.