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Dr. Cheryl Jones  (Certified Mail 7003 0500 0004 5223 9615)
Mental Health Head
Room 1D-165
McGuire V.A. Medical Center
1201 Broad Rock Road,
Richmond, VA, 23249

Honorable Eric K. Shinseki, Secretary, Veterans Administration, 810 Vermont Avenue NW., Washington, D.C., U.S.20420

Re: Paranoia of V.A.

Dear Dr. Jones,

I am edging toward the edge after being pushed repeatedly by mistreatment and stonewalling by the V.A. You can review the multi-year progression and my effort at getting justice at Timism.com\VA.htm (as well as the links on this letter). Most recently, my medication benefit was canceled with my complaint eliciting a gulagizing of me. Consider the following:

1. For over ten years at the VA (and for many more prior years )I was treated for narcolepsy by two V.A. doctors. My narcolepsy is genetic (a family trait) which caused me more than one week-end of punishment in the Navy for falling a sleep during workhours. My wife has received all the traffic tickets in almost 40 years is further proof of my narcolepsy because she does not like me driving.
2. For over two months now, a daily hell--see letters to Dr. Price in Blue clinic (recipient logs)

I have becoming increasingly angry, resentful and paranoid about V.A. As I say on my VA websegment: Which came first? My being a chicken paranoid of the VA or the egg-carton of my mistreatment at and by the VA?

You have a conundrum. How do you treat a angry, resentful and paranoid veteran who will not go inside a V.A. facility? If you do not treat him and he goes ballistic, postal or special forces, then the public and politicians will wonder why you did not find a way to treat him. Especially when the solution is the old, near-ten-year, $9/month narcoleptic medication. It is Heller's Catch-22: The V.A. does not want paranoid vets but in this case cannot treat the vet because the V.A. is the source of the paranoia.

How do you treat him? It is the root of this whole problem, his narcolepsy. Because of his narcolepsy, he feel asleep waiting for his blood clinic number--see Sepich 1,2,3. Because of his narcolepsy medicine benefit being revoked in January 2014, he has been living in an on-going roller-coaster hell.

While I keep saying I am not a danger to others, I also realize the potential of snapping, e.g., the decades-long logic of my warranting narcoleptic medicine and a V.A. physician saying "No!" medication to my face. It is at moments like this that a part of me screams out, "What the fuck is wrong with these people? A $9/month medication that has kept me alert, focused and productive is now being withheld for some hidden agenda!" I am not asking for special treatment just the treatment I had for almost ten years from VA doctors without the escalating mistreatment that is now no treatment of my narcolepsy.

How do you treat this angry, resentful and paranoid person? You can defuse the anger and resentment by re-initiating the narcoleptic medication. You cannot reduce the paranoia as the V.A. is increasingly viewed as a CYA bureaucracy in which, for the good of the VA, a complaining vet would be thrown under the bus.

While there have been investigations by the media on V.A. over-prescription of drugs to vets, the same cannot be accused of the Richmond VA facility in my prescriptions: My medication rights were cancelled without notice.

Summary, consider the cost so far to me and the V.A. from the V.A. canceling my $9/month medication benefit. Apparently, the V.A. has millions of dollars to burn defending benefits cancelation but no  pennies for a pad to pen a prescription.

With sincerity and certainty,

Robert S. Barnett 6096

If you want a new perspective on PTSD, see "How the military worsens PTSD" and, unknowingly, the VA is worsening the vet's PTSD. In effect, as is evidence by the tone of my letters, the V.A. has metastasized a variation of PTSD in this veteran.

Addendum:

1. 140506 When I read news reports about V.A. facilities having death lists, it was a chilling deja vu experience. The truth is that VA employees are job-hugging bureaucrats before they are servants to helping vets, that is, job security before job serving. Within the VA culture, I am not a person but a number. My complaints were increasingly viewed as a threat to the VA bureaucracy. It only takes one "for the good of the bureaucracy" VA employee to make the problem of Bob Barnett go away.
2. I have listed/documented the mental and physical changes from losing my prescription medication for narcolepsy--see diary of changes.
3. 140514 In light of the hidden lists of delayed treatment--which I suspected--when I want to commit suicide, I will go to the V.A. for a variation of suicide by cop-killing only suicide by V.A. doc killing.
4. 140515 Watching the news accounts of de facto V.A. death lists, I am more paranoid than ever of the V.A. For a long-time, I thought maybe the V.A. would wake up to re-starting the modifinal/providgal anti-narcolepsy prescription. But, now, if a drug package came from the V.A., I would not open the bottles let alone take the drugs. The hypocrisy of V.A. personnel in proclaiming pro-vet sentiments while engaging in "vets be damned" activities is too widespread in location, departments and personnel. It only takes one V.A. uber alles employee to minimize my complaints permanently.
5. 140517 Keep in mind that each time I complained about mistreatment beginning with the blood clinic, I have been marginalized until "gulagized" instead of having my complaints resolved. I find it ludicrous that the V.A. considers me a threat when the V.A's escalating mistreatment of me (culminating in the loss of my medication for narcolepsy) is a clear record of the V.A. being a threat to my well-being. Furthermore, given the broad, extensive and very public sharing of my egg carton of mistreatment, I know that there are some in the 250,000-plus who will think I should be silenced because of the "bigger picture" based on the blood-takers who said "I'm not doing him." Some would like to gag me like the rape victim crying out for help.