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Depression and suicidal tendencies have nothing to do with the neuro-endocrine disorder known as GWI/CFIDS. And that kind of misinformation makes it extremely difficult for PWCs to get compensation because of it.
Depression and suicidal tendencies are more related to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and misdiagnosis of physicians who believe we are depressed. Treating us with antidepressants makes us much, much sicker because the chemicals that are low in clinically depressed patients are super-high in those of us who served during the war. Antidepressants can mask the symptoms of GWI/CFIDS to the point that patients die of unknown causes. Pfizer is guilfty of placing many of our veterans in prison. Example: Timothy McVeigh who suffered GWI, and was given massive doses of antidepressants instead of the antibiotics and antioxidants he so desperately needed. Look what the meds made him do?
As for chemical exposure, very few
troops who have survived the 16-1/2 years are still alive if that was their main exposure. I never was exposed to chemicals, but massive exposure to airborne biological weapons and experimental vaccines that never will be approved for use by the FDA for the public.
Instead of focusing on depression, doctors should focus on hypothyroid, adrenal disfunction or malfunction and pituitary dysfunction that cuases mood swings because ALL of our sex hormones are low or missing due to exposure to depleted uranium and to cocktail vaccines.
I also worked on the Exxon Valdez case (all 200+) and I never read anything in our legal or administrative files about our workers getting sick. You may be making a mountain out of a fluke illness.
Margaret Diann <mother_margaret@...> wrote:
Shared by Beckie Cann: "If you have a service-connected disability of 0% or more, you
may "expand" your claim if you suffer the symptoms listed in Public
Law 107-103 to VA where your claim was initially filed.
Highly communicable! You can make your family and co-workers sick.
Don't get pregnant."
PUBLIC LAW 107-103, MARCH 1, 2002
AMENDMENT TO PREVIOUS AMENDMENTS OF U.S. CODE 38
SEC. 202. PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION FOR PERSIAN GULF WAR VETERANS WITH
CERTAIN CHRONIC DISABILITIES.
(a) ILLNESSES THAT CANNOT BE CLEARLY DEFINED- (1) Subsection (a) of
section 1117 is amended to read as follows:
(a)(1) The Secretary may pay compensation under this subchapter to a
Persian Gulf veteran with a qualifying chronic disability that
became manifest--
(A) during service on active duty in the Armed Forces in the
Southwest Asia theater of operations during the Persian Gulf War; or
(B) to a degree of 10 percent or more during the presumptive period
prescribed under subsection (b).
(2) For purposes of this subsection, the term `qualifying chronic
disability' means a chronic disability resulting from any of the
following (or any combination of any of the following):
(A) An undiagnosed illness.
(B) A medically unexplained chronic multisymptom illness (such as
chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and irritable bowel
syndrome) that is defined by a cluster of signs or symptoms.
(C) Any diagnosed illness that the Secretary determines in
regulations prescribed under subsection (d) warrants a presumption
of service-connection.'.
(2) Subsection (c)(1) of such section is amended--
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking `for an
undiagnosed illness (or combination of undiagnosed illnesses)'; and
(B) in subparagraph (A), by striking `for such illness (or
combination of illnesses)'.
(b) SIGNS OR SYMPTOMS THAT MAY INDICATE UNDIAGNOSED ILLNESSES- (1)
Such section is fu! rther am ended by adding at the end the following
new subsection:
(g) For purposes of this section, signs or symptoms that may be a
manifestation of an undiagnosed illness or a chronic multisymptom
illness include the following:
(1) Fatigue.
(2) Unexplained rashes or other dermatological signs or symptoms.
(3) Headache.
(4) Muscle pain.
(5) Joint pain.
(6) Neurological signs and symptoms.
(7) Neuropsychological signs or symptoms.
(8) Signs or symptoms involving the upper or lower respiratory
system.
(9) Sleep disturbances.
(10) Gastrointestinal signs or symptoms.
(11) Cardiovascular signs or symptoms.
(12) Abnormal weight loss.
(13) Menstrual disorders.'.
(2) Section 1118(a) is amended by adding at the end the following
new paragraph:
(4) For purposes of this section, signs or symptoms that may be a
manifestation of an undiagnosed illness include the signs and
symptoms listed in section 1117(g) of this title.'.
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE- The amendments made by subsections (a) and (b)
shall take effect on March 1, 2002.
(d) CLARIFICATION OF AUTHORITY TO PRESUME SERVICE-CONNECTION FOR
ADDITIONAL DISEASES- (1) Sections 1117(c)(2) and 1118(e) are each
amended by striking `10 years' and all that follows through `of
1998' and inserting `on September 30, 2011'.
(2) Section 1603(j) of the Persian Gulf War Veterans Act of 1998 (38
U.S.C. 1117 note) is amended by striking `10 years' and all that
follows and inserting `on October 1, 2010.'._____________________ _______ Margaret,Aren't the above the 'short list' put forward by the American Legion for 'gulf war syndrome?'... at least strikingly similar?Symptoms of Gulf War Illnesses (according to the American Legion)
.org/index. html Consider glyconutrient food supplements for help *I think these are dealing PRIMARILY with an autoimmune issueI also think the Vietnam vets have more harm from this chemicalthan from dioxin,and the same is true for other war eras
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