Anxiety decisions — 2025

The Board remands the claim for service connection of an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include adjustment disorder with anxiety and insomnia, due to a pre-decisional duty-to-assist error in not obtaining the Veteran's service personnel records.

The Board of Veterans' Appeals remands the claim for service connection for a psychiatric disability, including an anxiety disorder and PTSD, due to unverified periods of active duty and missing service medical records.

The Veteran's service-connected bipolar disorder with unspecified anxiety disorder precludes him from securing and maintaining substantially gainful employment, warranting a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU).

The Board denied service connection for an undiagnosed illness characterized by chronic fatigue syndrome, remanded the claims for carpal tunnel syndrome and a psychiatric disorder to be further developed, and found that there was no evidence supporting the Veteran's claim of CFS.

The appeal for service connection for generalized anxiety disorder with agoraphobic and PTSD features is dismissed because the February 2024 rating decision was an administrative 'back-fill' decision, not an appealable one.

The appeal has been withdrawn by the Veteran's authorized representative and is dismissed.

The Board remands the claim for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include as secondary to service-connected disabilities, for further development and readjudication.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for various disabilities, including psychiatric conditions and physical issues, due to incomplete records from the Social Security Administration (SSA).

The Veteran was granted an initial rating of 10 percent for left lower extremity radiculopathy, but his claim for a higher rating for GAD was denied.

The Board remands the issues of entitlement to an evaluation in excess of 70 percent for persistent depressive disorder and an unspecified anxiety disorder prior to April 18, 2017, and entitlement to a total disability evaluation based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities (TDIU) prior to April 18, 2017.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, finding that personality disorders are considered congenital or developmental defects and not subject to service connection.

The Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric condition, including unspecified depressive disorder and PTSD, was granted.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for sleep apnea, depression, anxiety, and insomnia to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors.

The Board denied a rating in excess of 70 percent for PTSD as the evidence did not show total occupational and social impairment.

The Board granted a 30 percent rating for generalized anxiety disorder from September 21, 2020, and a 70 percent rating from September 20, 2021.

The Board denied service connection for a right knee condition and a disability rating in excess of 50 percent for anxiety disorder, unspecified with alcohol use disorder.

The Board denied service connection for chronic granulomatous disease, costochondritis, right knee pain, migraine headaches, obstructive sleep apnea, and anxiety disability. The Board remanded the claims for a compensable evaluation for allergic rhinitis and service connection for bronchitis.

The claims for service connection for personality disorder, depression, generalized anxiety, and a back condition were dismissed due to the appellant not following a mandatory claim-processing rule requiring a notice of disagreement (NOD) to be filed within one year of the date of the issuance of notice of the decision.

The Board remands the claims for a compensable rating for healed stress fracture, left third metatarsal base with neurapraxia of left anterior tibial nerve and service connection for chronic anxiety, chronic depression, diabetes, and sleep apnea due to insufficient evidence.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including PTSD, anxiety, and adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, based on the Veteran's in-service personal assault.