Need help asap. Medboard/chapter 5-17

[Reconamz31b]

Here I am at my wits of destiny confused as hell. I have been in the army 5 years with 1 deployment. I cannot find a thread to assist me so if someone can please help I would much appreciate it. I have been going to behavioral health for some time now dealing with depression and anxiety after my mother died while I was at my first duty station. It has destroyed me completely as a human being. I do not eat except maybe 1 meal a day, I do not socialize or hang out with friends like I used to, I find it extremely devastating to grasp the energy to even get up and go to PT formation or work. I am unable to hold a weapon due to my medication profile. Here's the issue. It is brought to the commands attention that I am unable to assume my role as a military police officer or even a soldier in general because I am constantly distracted by my thoughts at work rather than what the mission is. I take adderall, zoloft, mitrazapine, and buspirone which do absolutely nothing for me and I continue to eat myself away 24/7. My unit decided they wanted to chapter 5-17 honorably that way I can be with my family and not have to deal with the stressors of the military. I feel insulted by this because I have forced myself to suck it up and deal with it in regards to the mission to satisfy the army. I feel I am entitled to a medboard so that I don't have 1 more thing on my mind that is negative such as a chapter or getting kicked out of the army for an illness I possibly could have never had or even prevented if I never joined in the first place. I have been seeing them for a while and they are supposedly reviewing my file to see if I meet the standard for a medboard. Today while I thought this whole time I was diagnosed with sever depression and anxiety, my therapist had told me I have an "adjustment disorder" and that may not have grounds for a medboard. I am catasrophizing this event in my head and see nothing coming my way except a "you tried, and now you're mentally fucked up so get out" coming my way. Someone please help. Am I able to medboard? If BH tells me I'm not and they initiate the chapter what can I do in order to medboard?

 

[gsfowler]

Adjustment disorder, if present for more than six months (Chronic Adjustment Disorder) is a potential compensable injury according to DoD 1332.38.

Here is a copy of the instruction: http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/133218p.pdf

ALARACT 178/2013 provides guidance regarding Chronic Adjustment Disorder

Here is a copy of the guidance: http://www.usmilitarymobile.com/fil...12_CONCERNING_CHRONIC_ADJUSTMENT_DISORDER.pdf

In summary:

A. ON 10 APR 13, THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DOD) AMENDED DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INSTRUCTION (DODI) 1332.38, PHYSICAL DISABILITY EVALUATION, DESIGNATING CHRONIC ADJUSTMENT DISORDER AS A POTENTIALLY COMPENSABLE PHYSICAL DISABILITY.

B. A DIAGNOSIS OF CHRONIC ADJUSTMENT DISORDER WILL CAUSE A SOLDIER TO BE REFERRED TO THE MEDICAL EVALUATION BOARD (MEB) OF THE DISABILITY EVALUATION SYSTEM (DES) WHEN THE SOLDIER EXHIBITS PERSISTENT OR RECURRING SYMPTOMS MEETING CRITERIA DETAILED IN THE CURRENT EDITION OF THE DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL FOR MENTAL DISORDERS. THESE SYMPTOMS MUST BE DIRECTLY CAUSED BY EXPOSURE TO AN ENDURING STRESSOR AND MUST LAST LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS. THE CAUSE FOR REFERRAL TO THE DES FOR CHRONIC ADJUSTMENT DISORDER ARE AS FOLLOWS: (1) PERSISTENCE OR RECURRENCE OF SYMPTOMS SUFFICIENT TO REQUIRE EXTENDED OR RECURRENT HOSPITALIZATION; OR (2) PERSISTENCE OR RECURRENCE OF SYMPTOMS THAT INTERFERE WITH DUTY PERFORMANCE AND NECESSITATE LIMITATIONS TO DUTY OR DUTY IN A PROTECTED ENVIRONMENT.