So I talked to one of my drs at behavioral health today and I was basically told that my conditions were pre exisitng and I could not get a MEB.
My story is as follows:
I have had OCD my whole life but it did not get bad until I joined the army in 2005
Previous to that I was in the Marines for four years with very little issues.
I have had general anxeity for a few years now
I have just been diagnosed with major deppression.
Now I have been hospitalized in 2006 for the depression OCD and anxeity with no success.
I have also been in the hospital in patient physch ward twice in the past 3 months for 3 weeks each time. Now I am in intensive out patient with no succes so far if any thing I have gotten worse.
After reading the regulation below I am starting to think the dr is wrong and that I am entitled to a MEB. So Could someone Please read the reg below and take the info I have provided and give me some options and guidance ASAP
This is out of 40-501
Mood disorders
The causes for referral to an MEB are as follows:
a. Persistence or recurrence of symptoms sufficient to require extended or recurrent hospitalization; or
b. Persistence or recurrence of symptoms necessitating limitations of duty or duty in protected environment; or c. Persistence or recurrence of symptoms resulting in interference with effective military performance.
3–33. Anxiety, somatoform, or dissociative disorders
The causes for referral to an MEB are as follows:
a. Persistence or recurrence of symptoms sufficient to require extended or recurrent hospitalization; or
b. Persistence or recurrence of symptoms necessitating limitations of duty or duty in protected environment; or c. Persistence or recurrence of symptoms resulting in interference with effective military performance.
3–34. Dementia and other cognitive disorders due to general medical condition
The causes for referral to an MEB include persistence of symptoms or associated personality change sufficient to interfere with the performance of duty or social adjustment.
3–35. Personality, psychosexual conditions, transsexual, gender identity, exhibitionism, transvestism, voyeurism, other paraphilias, or factitious disorders; disorders of impulse control not elsewhere classified
a. A history of, or current manifestations of, personality disorders, disorders of impulse control not elsewhere classified, transvestism, voyeurism, other paraphilias, or factitious disorders, psychosexual conditions, transsexual, gender identity disorder to include major abnormalities or defects of the genitalia such as change of sex or a current attempt to change sex, hermaphroditism, pseudohermaphroditism, or pure gonadal dysgenesis or dysfunctional residuals from surgical correction of these conditions render an individual administratively unfit.
b. These conditions render an individual administratively unfit rather than unfit because of physical illness or medical disability. These conditions will be dealt with through administrative channels, including AR 135–175, AR 135–178, AR 635–200, or AR 600–8–24.
My story is as follows:
I have had OCD my whole life but it did not get bad until I joined the army in 2005
Previous to that I was in the Marines for four years with very little issues.
I have had general anxeity for a few years now
I have just been diagnosed with major deppression.
Now I have been hospitalized in 2006 for the depression OCD and anxeity with no success.
I have also been in the hospital in patient physch ward twice in the past 3 months for 3 weeks each time. Now I am in intensive out patient with no succes so far if any thing I have gotten worse.
After reading the regulation below I am starting to think the dr is wrong and that I am entitled to a MEB. So Could someone Please read the reg below and take the info I have provided and give me some options and guidance ASAP
This is out of 40-501
Mood disorders
The causes for referral to an MEB are as follows:
a. Persistence or recurrence of symptoms sufficient to require extended or recurrent hospitalization; or
b. Persistence or recurrence of symptoms necessitating limitations of duty or duty in protected environment; or c. Persistence or recurrence of symptoms resulting in interference with effective military performance.
3–33. Anxiety, somatoform, or dissociative disorders
The causes for referral to an MEB are as follows:
a. Persistence or recurrence of symptoms sufficient to require extended or recurrent hospitalization; or
b. Persistence or recurrence of symptoms necessitating limitations of duty or duty in protected environment; or c. Persistence or recurrence of symptoms resulting in interference with effective military performance.
3–34. Dementia and other cognitive disorders due to general medical condition
The causes for referral to an MEB include persistence of symptoms or associated personality change sufficient to interfere with the performance of duty or social adjustment.
3–35. Personality, psychosexual conditions, transsexual, gender identity, exhibitionism, transvestism, voyeurism, other paraphilias, or factitious disorders; disorders of impulse control not elsewhere classified
a. A history of, or current manifestations of, personality disorders, disorders of impulse control not elsewhere classified, transvestism, voyeurism, other paraphilias, or factitious disorders, psychosexual conditions, transsexual, gender identity disorder to include major abnormalities or defects of the genitalia such as change of sex or a current attempt to change sex, hermaphroditism, pseudohermaphroditism, or pure gonadal dysgenesis or dysfunctional residuals from surgical correction of these conditions render an individual administratively unfit.
b. These conditions render an individual administratively unfit rather than unfit because of physical illness or medical disability. These conditions will be dealt with through administrative channels, including AR 135–175, AR 135–178, AR 635–200, or AR 600–8–24.