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Many veterans who experience a traumatic event on active duty develop PTSD, also called your VA PTSD Claim.

This traumatic event is called a PTSD stressor by the VA.  It is estimated that veterans are four times (4x) as likely to have or develop PTSD compared to those who didn’t serve in the military–a truly shocking statistic.  It’s reasonable to assume a veteran will pursue a VA claim for PTSD at some point, and this post will help you on your path to service connection for PTSD.

The VA states a stressor involves exposure to death, threatened death, actual or threatened serious injury, or actual or threatened sexual violence.  The exposure can be related to:  Direct exposure  Indirect exposure, such as learning that a close relative or close friend was exposed to trauma  Witnessing in-person  Repeated or extreme indirect exposure to details of the event  For rating purposes, the VA classifies PTSD as either (1) PTSD Combat or (2) PTSD Non-Combat.

Examples of PTSD combat stressors  • Rocket and mortar attacks in Iraq  • Enemy ambush in Vietnam  • IED event in Afghanistan  • Flight deck plane crash in the Gulf War  • Seeing another service-member killed while deployed  Examples of PTSD non-combat stressors

Military Sexual Trauma (MST), assault or harassment  • Service-member suicide  • Serious car accidents  • Training accidents  • Witnessing a rape  • Serious weather event such as a hurricane  • Death of a family member

How to Prove Your Service-Connected VA Claim For PTSD  Stressor verification is a huge deal for VA disability claims for PTSD.  The reality is if the veteran can’t prove their PTSD stressor on an “at least as likely as not” basis, you’ll likely be denied service connection.  This is also referred to as “corroboration” of a claimed stressor.  By definition, “corroborate” means “to support with evidence or authority and make more certain.”  The VA has different rules to assess whether a stressor event needs further verification.  But in our experience, I want to make something very clear to veterans seeking service connection for PTSD: The burden of proof is on YOU to show on an “at least as likely as not” basis that the stressor event happened to YOU.

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