God. I’m so sorry. Every story I’ve heard about the VA is absolutely fucked.
I’ve never dealt with the VA and my knowledge of it is limited, but someone I care a lot about was in the Navy. She’s been suffering constant flashbacks and slowly losing touch with reality over the past couple weeks, she can’t really be on her own, we’ve been trying to get her any form of inpatient care or even just meds. She was sent home from the clinic several times when we brought her because technically my partner is around to take care of her. She wasn’t lucid enough during appointments to talk to a doctor, so they kinda just shrugged their shoulders, scheduled another appointment in 4 weeks, and let her go. We knew we were in way over our heads taking care of her, but we weren’t given any other option and she didn’t have anywhere else to go. Fast forward a week, she’s in a hypochondriac panic, had to be restrained in order to keep her from consuming poison, she breaks free and attacks my partner and a few cops, now she’s in jail when she should have been in a hospital weeks ago. I am still wrapping my head around how badly the system failed her, and I can only imagine how many stories like yours and hers there are.
God. I’m so sorry. Every story I’ve heard about the VA is absolutely fucked.
I’ve never dealt with the VA and my knowledge of it is limited, but someone I care a lot about was in the Navy. She’s been suffering constant flashbacks and slowly losing touch with reality over the past couple weeks, she can’t really be on her own, we’ve been trying to get her any form of inpatient care or even just meds. She was sent home from the clinic several times when we brought her because technically my partner is around to take care of her. She wasn’t lucid enough during appointments to talk to a doctor, so they kinda just shrugged their shoulders, scheduled another appointment in 4 weeks, and let her go. We knew we were in way over our heads taking care of her, but we weren’t given any other option and she didn’t have anywhere else to go. Fast forward a week, she’s in a hypochondriac panic, had to be restrained in order to keep her from consuming poison, she breaks free and attacks my partner and a few cops, now she’s in jail when she should have been in a hospital weeks ago. I am still wrapping my head around how badly the system failed her, and I can only imagine how many stories like yours and hers there are.