Help a Veteran get help she needs
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Hi my name is Amanda Maher. I am 26 years old and served active duty from 2007 to 2012. My son Adrian died in 2009 at five months old due to a soft suffocation due to the father leaving him with a bottle proped in his mouth.
http://www.westword.com/news/joseph-trujillo-mile-high-murder-no-71-lesser-charge-against-man-whose-infant-died-while-he-was-allegedly-out-drinking-5844286
It was on the news and above is the link to the article.
I believe to this day it is my fault. I left the army soon after. Diagnosed with PTSD major depression and everthing the VA constantly threw at me to make me look unfit to be in the military.
Since 2012 I've been in and out of VA treatment only been handed more Xanax and more antidepressants with no therapy involved. I attempted suicide several times only to be drugged up more and to be told I need my meds adjusted.
2016 I finally found a program on my own as well as my boyfriends help called the "The Light Program" it's 500.00 a week and I talked to the head director Angela Griffith, MS. She desperately wanted me to do the program where I can go days or evenings four times a week. It's to process my grievances and addictions such as my eating disorder. And how to cope with everyday life without being confined. I Told her I couldn't afford it but she was so desperate to have me knowing how much help I needed she brought it down to 400 a week.
I proposed this to my VA and they simply refused and they put me on a 4 to 5 month waiting program for something that still hasnt even happened yet for my treatment and they want me to go somewhere in Baltimore which in The beginning said they can help me get into the program I believe is best for me and my current living situation . All they have done was Send more addictive meds which I said they only make me worse. Note they have canceled appointments without my permission, only to drive to there looking like I should have known.
I am finally taking a step forward to try to engage this program that I think would do best for me please help me and my family to get better. If you have any questions here is the information for the light program.
This would definitely take a step forward to my life as well as my families. Thank you
http://www.westword.com/news/joseph-trujillo-mile-high-murder-no-71-lesser-charge-against-man-whose-infant-died-while-he-was-allegedly-out-drinking-5844286
It was on the news and above is the link to the article.
I believe to this day it is my fault. I left the army soon after. Diagnosed with PTSD major depression and everthing the VA constantly threw at me to make me look unfit to be in the military.
Since 2012 I've been in and out of VA treatment only been handed more Xanax and more antidepressants with no therapy involved. I attempted suicide several times only to be drugged up more and to be told I need my meds adjusted.
2016 I finally found a program on my own as well as my boyfriends help called the "The Light Program" it's 500.00 a week and I talked to the head director Angela Griffith, MS. She desperately wanted me to do the program where I can go days or evenings four times a week. It's to process my grievances and addictions such as my eating disorder. And how to cope with everyday life without being confined. I Told her I couldn't afford it but she was so desperate to have me knowing how much help I needed she brought it down to 400 a week.
I proposed this to my VA and they simply refused and they put me on a 4 to 5 month waiting program for something that still hasnt even happened yet for my treatment and they want me to go somewhere in Baltimore which in The beginning said they can help me get into the program I believe is best for me and my current living situation . All they have done was Send more addictive meds which I said they only make me worse. Note they have canceled appointments without my permission, only to drive to there looking like I should have known.
I am finally taking a step forward to try to engage this program that I think would do best for me please help me and my family to get better. If you have any questions here is the information for the light program.
This would definitely take a step forward to my life as well as my families. Thank you
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Amanda Maher
Organizer
Lancaster, PA