A desperate need for assistance for a tremendous PTSD advocate

by: DonQuixote

Thu Mar 26, 2009 at 10:52:05 AM EDT

In all of this with PTSD, I have no power and cannot get members of congress or the DOD to listen to me.  I argue with the VA all the time but they won't listen.  I am a member of NAMI on the Veterans Council and I can't get them to listen.  I'm on Military Spouses of America board of directors but they won't listen either.

I've been working with veterans suffering from PTSD since 1982. In all these years, I've learned more talking to them, listening to them, than I have learned doing research.  Aside from living with my husband all these year, I have an insight few others have. There isn't much I don't know about PTSD but there is too much I don't know about self-promoting.  Even if I knew how to do it, I simply don't have the time to invest because of all the hours I put in with the veterans now and tracking PTSD reports around the country and internationally.  I have veterans coming to be from 6 nations.  Because of this I'm also contacted by police officers and firefighters.

I am in desperate need of help from all the people I know so that I can get the people with the power to do something for our veterans to at least listen to what I know.  I cannot use the people I help because all of their communications with me are held in private, so no one really knows what I do.  That's why your help is vital to the work I do.  Can you post what I wrote?  Keep in mind that I am sending this out to several different groups, so your site won't be the only one with it.  Please let me know if you can post it up.  I really need your help on this.  We're loosing too many of them because too many people with the power are looking in the wrong direction.