Adjustment Disorder, the kick out the door for troops

Pentagon Betrays Troops Again: ‘Adjustment Disorder’ Discharges Soar: No Benefits, no respect
August 10, 2010 posted by Michael Leon


Military boots PTSD troops with no benefits. Pentagon has moved away from personality disorders, but adjustment disorder diagnosis is another piece of the same problem, a “cost effective” way for veterans to receive no benefits and no treatment. … ‘I was told I had PTSD, and then I was told I didn’t.‘ No word from the Commander-in-Chief yet. -

By Kelly Kennedy in the Army Times

Two years ago, Congress enacted rules to curb the military’s practice of separating troops with combat stress for pre-existing personality disorders – an administrative discharge that left those veterans without medical care or other benefits.

Now, veterans advocates say, the military is using a new means to the same end: giving stressed troops administrative discharges for “adjustment disorders,” which
also carry no benefits.

And just as before, Congress appears poised to wade in.

Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond, R-Mo., plans to ask President Obama to have the Pentagon provide details on discharges for adjustment disorder in recent years.
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Pentagon Betrays Troops Again