My situation in a “nut” shell

Sleeping Dog - That’s a crock. As someone who has lived with ptsd for yrs, there is no cure. I see my pscy ones a mth, do massage, do medical Marijuana, meditate. These are all things in my toolbox I use to help me live with my dissociation, flashbacks, and anxiety, etc, daily. I would suggest you get your pscy write them a letter on this subject. VVV

I want to run something by everyone to see if you know of my situation happening to any other vet and what I might be able to do about if anything? What happened was I applied for DEC, my case manager set me up with March of Dimes, 2 days of occupational testing to see what I can still do and not do. My case manager also asked my psychologist of 4 years for his progress report. After reading it, my CM told my psychologist and myself to " throw away" the physical paper work and told me not to bother going to the physical testing because the severity of my PTSD was sufficient. So last month my CM goes to the IDT and comes back with the response: DEC denied. Reason being # 1 they want a 2nd opinion from a psychiatrist because they felt my psychologist was taking "too long to cure me how do you cure someone of PTSD? Anyway.I have 2 other pensioned disabilitys, a severed bicep and arthritis of the lumbar spine. On the denial letter I got back the board only had listed my PTSd and my injured arm ( as if that wasnt enough) and ignored my low back. I was furious with my CM because had I gone for the march of dimes testing they would have compiled an independent report showing how much I can lift, how long I can sit etc. Valuable information for a board who I'd deciding what if anything at all I can still do in the workplace I would think? Of course I am appealing but I dont know how that works, will it just be my same CM and same IDT taking a second look, or a totally new IDT ( I dont think there are too many IDT in one local). I also sent my situation to the ombudsman but I also informed my CM that if the appeal also rules against me, I am taking her to civilian court so she can explain to a judge why she instructed me not to take part in a procedure that would have only strengthened my case before a health board? Do you know if I can even do that? I found on line a group of lawyers in Bc macmaster ,I think they were called who said they are veteran advocates and cover legal costs free,All of this means nothing if I cant even take this situation before a civi judge, the final kicker is that I am supposed to hear this month that I am approved CPPD for all my injuries.how does one gov.agency label me disabled and yet VAC doesnt grant DEC. Personally I think they just looked at the date and said let's just stall this one a month and then grant him DEC April 2 after CIAS disappears, the old " delay,deny hope I die" routine, l guess my last question is, if it takes 6 weeks more to complete a review, suppose I win, will they backdate the decision to the date of the original board in Feb? I'm not necessarily expecting a response just bouncing this off a lot of people with more knowledge about this stuff than myself.