http://www.veteranstoday.com/2009/10/26/va-dod-host-national-mental-health-summit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=va-dod-host-national-mental-health-summit Military Veterans and Foreign Affairs Journal - VA - Veterans Administration Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:15:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.veteranstoday.com/2009/10/26/va-dod-host-national-mental-health-summit/comment-page-1/#comment-29085 Steve Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:23:56 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/?p=9150#comment-29085 Four of my family served in Vietnam, sister, me and two brother. My kid brother was a brown river rat and got blown off a gunboat. All were killed except him. He was in and out of VA hospitals for years. Tomah VA was the worse. When my parents visited he was always grogged out on meds bug tune. Finally, I was home on leave and went with them, saw my brother and spoke with some in charge and laid in on the line. Why is he always grogged out. We went back in a week and his meds has changed. He eventually got out, is 100%, not the same, can't work but at least people can talk to him because of the limited meds he is on. I almost felt as if the VAMC staff or MDs over medicated him so they wouldn't have to bother with him. Four of my family served in Vietnam, sister, me and two brother. My kid brother was a brown river rat and got blown off a gunboat. All were killed except him. He was in and out of VA hospitals for years. Tomah VA was the worse. When my parents visited he was always grogged out on meds bug tune. Finally, I was home on leave and went with them, saw my brother and spoke with some in charge and laid in on the line. Why is he always grogged out. We went back in a week and his meds has changed. He eventually got out, is 100%, not the same, can’t work but at least people can talk to him because of the limited meds he is on. I almost felt as if the VAMC staff or MDs over medicated him so they wouldn’t have to bother with him.

]]> http://www.veteranstoday.com/2009/10/26/va-dod-host-national-mental-health-summit/comment-page-1/#comment-29005 Subvet416 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:46:23 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/?p=9150#comment-29005 I hope they take up the subject of the use of psychiatric drugs for symptoms of PTSD. The VA's own studies show that drugs are of no value in the treatment of PTSD, yet almost every vet in PTSD treatment at the VA is being prescribed them. Most vets in pursuit of a service-connected disability status mistakenly believe that taking these drugs compliantly is a condition of successful award of that claim, and that continuing to be compliant with drug treatment, or any other "approved" therapy is a condition of maintaining the rating. New published research which shows that the brain damage caused by psychiatric drugs often causes the very symptoms of "mental illness" that the manufacturers claim to be treating is now entering the mainstream medical publications. See the new book "Drug-induced Dementia" by Navy veteran, psychiatrist Grace E. Jackson MD. I hope they take up the subject of the use of psychiatric drugs for symptoms of PTSD. The VA’s own studies show that drugs are of no value in the treatment of PTSD, yet almost every vet in PTSD treatment at the VA is being prescribed them. Most vets in pursuit of a service-connected disability status mistakenly believe that taking these drugs compliantly is a condition of successful award of that claim, and that continuing to be compliant with drug treatment, or any other “approved” therapy is a condition of maintaining the rating. New published research which shows that the brain damage caused by psychiatric drugs often causes the very symptoms of “mental illness” that the manufacturers claim to be treating is now entering the mainstream medical publications. See the new book “Drug-induced Dementia” by Navy veteran, psychiatrist Grace E. Jackson MD.

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