Anxiety decisions — 2024

The Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including PTSD, is remanded due to the need for additional medical opinions and consideration of his TBI claim.

The Board has restored service connection for major depressive disorder, unspecified anxiety disorder, amphetamine disorder in early remission, and opioid use disorder due to the grant of service connection being clearly erroneous.

The Board has remanded the claims for right ear hearing loss, psychiatric disability (depressive disorder and anxiety disorder), recurrent hemorrhoids, and gallbladder disability to include cholecystectomy residuals due to a pre-decisional error in verifying the Veteran's periods of active duty with the Florida Army National Guard.

The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection due to errors in determining his qualifying service periods and a lack of VA examination regarding his lower back symptoms.

The Veteran's service-connected disabilities rendered him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation as early as December 12, 2018. The Board has granted TDIU from March 7, 2019.

The Veteran's claim for specially adapted housing has been granted.,Effective dates have been established for SMC based on housebound criteria, loss of use of a creative organ, service connection for BPPV, asthma, chronic sinusitis, TMJ syndrome with bruxism, and migraine including migraine variants.

The Board has denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss and granted service connection for tinnitus. The issues of service connection for depression, anxiety, and insomnia are remanded.

The Board has dismissed the Veteran's appeals for increased disability ratings for generalized anxiety disorder, headaches, and cervicalgia due to his authorized representative withdrawing the appeal.

The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety disorder, and depressive disorder. The decision is based on evidence showing that these conditions are related to in-service events.

The Veteran's adjustment disorder with anxiety is rated at 70 percent, but no higher, effective from the date service connection was granted (June 4, 2020).

The Board has remanded the case due to inadequate medical opinions regarding the nature and etiology of the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disabilities, specifically PTSD. The VA will need to obtain additional medical nexus opinions.

The Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including anxiety, is being remanded due to the submission of new and relevant evidence. The Board will determine if there is a relationship between her current diagnoses and her military service.

The Board has denied service connection for PTSD due to the absence of a current diagnosis. The claims for left and right foot disabilities, as well as an acquired psychiatric disorder other than PTSD, are remanded for further development.

The Board has remanded the case due to the need for a VA examination to determine the etiology of the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disability, including MDD and unspecified anxiety disorder.

The Board denied service connection for major depressive disorder and unspecified/generalized anxiety disorder, as well as the readjudication of a previously denied claim for tinnitus. The Veteran's claims were not supported by competent evidence linking her conditions to service.

The Veteran's anxiety disorder is rated at 50% for the period prior to April 29, 2021. A higher rating of 70% or greater is denied. The Veteran also received a TDIU effective June 25, 2019.

The Veteran's claim for service connection for a psychiatric disorder, including PTSD, depression and anxiety, is being remanded due to incomplete records. The Board finds that the Veteran has current diagnoses of these conditions but needs his complete SPRs, private treatment records, and SSA records to be obtained.

The Veteran's appeal for service connection of a psychiatric disability, including PTSD and other conditions, has been dismissed due to their passing away during the pendency of the appeal.

The Veteran's initial disability rating for generalized anxiety disorder has been granted at a 70 percent level, effective from the date of the November 2020 decision. The appeal is not about service connection but rather about the appropriate disability rating.

The Board has dismissed the appeal for service connection of back disability due to it being decided prior to the implementation of the Appeals Modernization Act. The right leg neuropathy and acquired psychiatric disabilities (anxiety and major depression) are remanded for further review.