PTSD Review Patients Struggle To Amend Records: Aaron Ostrum and his wife thought they got a blessing early last year when the Army reconsidered the former soldier’s mental health records and changed his diagnosis to post-traumatic stress disorder. The couple believed the adjusted diagnosis more accurately reflected the psychological toll of his experiences inspecting mass graves in Bosnia and serving on security details in Baghdad. They expected the PTSD diagnosis would get him better care and more money in monthly disability benefits to support his family. A year and a half later, they have the PTSD diagnosis in hand, but they’re still struggling to get the Army to follow through with changes to his service records and retirement benefits. “What else do they want? I don’t understand,” the former Washington National Guard specialist said in an interview at his Pierce County house.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:05:56 +0000
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