C&P Prep - Mental Health

I had my C&P exam today, and from my perspective it went really well. I had anticipated all of the questions, I had my responses ready fully detailed, and I did all this in accordance with the form that I knew he would be filling out.

I hear a lot of people talk about ChatGPT, so I will weigh in with something that some of you are already doing, but if you’re not, it’s a huge piece that helped me. Download the VA document that your examiner will be using, and upload that to ChatGPT.

Then ask ChatGPT to do an exam on you, asking you questions one by one and allowing you to type your responses. Tell it also to be very critical and to critique your responses to ensure you are answering in a way that provides the most detail and checks all of the boxes that the examiner will be using based on that document.

I can’t give you any insight as to how my exam went yet, and how that will impact my reading, but I can tell you that there were no questions that were asked that I was not prepared for, and knew exactly what words and phrases to use to ensure I was able to adequately relay my current symptoms.

If you’re trying to prepare for this on your own, you can absolutely do it. Please know that you should only do this to adequately relay your current symptoms and don’t use this as an opportunity to inflate your rating or your symptoms just for a bigger payout.

Hope this is helpful!