Malingering and PTSD

Length-29 minutes, 4 seconds

Dr. John Riolo," The Insider", Vice-President of Psychjourney, interviews Attorney & Founding Partner Dorothy Clay Sims.

Attorney Dorothy Clay Sims

Dorothy Clay Sims is founding partner of her own law firm Sims, Amat, Stakenborg, & Henry in Ocala, Florida and was the first woman chair of the Worker's Compensation Section of the Florida bar in 22 years. She was president of the Marion County Bar Association; co-founder/past president, Florida Worker's Advocates; CEO, Florida Academy of Impairment Rating, Inc.; and co-founder, International Forensic Medical Association.

Sims has carved a significant niche deposing defense doctor witnesses in brain injury, malingering, and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) cases that lead to favorable trial outcomes and frequent awards to plaintiffs nationwide. Sims is CEO of MD in a Box, an online business she founded in 2005 to provide other lawyers real-time access to fully trained medical doctors during deposition or trial while they cross-examine the opposing doctor. Visit her website.

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[Carol]

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I was wondering what your thoughts would be on what happens with me...

I record my dreams every day because so many of them from when I was young have come true...from personal, national to world events...

Now that I write them down I can go back and verify info...because I probably would have forgotten half the dreams I wrote down...and even the ones I write down are only half or less of the actual dreams I have every night...

Interestingly I can wake up early in the morning or middle of the night and the dream is so clear I say to myself ok will remember that one and I will tell myself that I will write it in the morning...

But then day comes and another dream or two in between and have no recall of the middle of the night dream I was so sure I would remember...

Where do dreams go? is there some hiding place for them in the brain?

Most recently I dreamt of the events leading up to the Virginia Tech News...at first I thought hmmm don't remember anything about that but then when I look back in my book I can clearly find the connections and info...feeling lonely on a college campus, one single male assailant tall dark hair...murder...comes back a second time...large school room big windows...etc...

Family was murdered close to where I live and in a sequence of dreams leading to this I get info about what is going to happen...then dream of a little kid (3 little boys killed along with parents) runs up to me in a dream with blood on him telling me his whole family is being killed and he has blood on him...someone wakes me up to tell me that a family of 5 was killed...each night I dream after that and read the news the next day there is something confirming from my dream there...not to mention the Dad's name...

and some times simple every day things like someone loses something and I dream they lost it and next day they lost it and it is where it was in my dream...

Besides more personal info it is really hard to zoom down on the who what when why where until it is after the event and then see the correlation of info to the happening...

personal stuff is more of a direct hit maybe because I know the people involved although the other info that comes in is pretty right on but don't know where it belongs...

I know there must be a reason to dream dreams that come true but not sure how I can use them on a larger level to help others yet or what the purpose of knowing might be besides the WOW I dreamt that and watch it unfold as I dream but there must be a more useful purpose...open to ideas?

[Murray Stone]

Why is Ms. Sims outsourcing American consulting jobs to India?

By not using American doctors or psychologists familiar with American neurology and psychology literature, she does a great disservice to her own clients for her own profit. I fail to see how this is effective cross-examination,good lawyering, or genuine advocacy.