Anxiety decisions — 2025

The Board remands the claims for higher ratings and earlier effective dates for kidney disability, diabetes mellitus, type II, hypertension, lower extremity peripheral neuropathy, anxiety disorder, and PTSD due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.

The appeal for service connection for adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood was withdrawn by the Veteran, and the Board has dismissed the appeal.

The Board granted a 70 percent rating for the Veteran's other specified trauma and stressor related disorder, finding that the severity of his symptoms more closely approximated occupational and social impairment due to passive suicidal ideation.

The appeal regarding entitlement to service connection for anxiety was withdrawn by the Veteran through his representative.

The appeal regarding entitlement to service connection for anxiety was withdrawn by the Veteran through his representative.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, diagnosed as unspecified depressive disorder, unspecified anxiety disorder, and insomnia, on a secondary basis due to the Veteran's service-connected tinnitus.

The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood and L5-S1 spondylolisthesis with anterolisthesis of L5-S1 with evidence of L5 pars defects (PGW AGG), have precluded him from obtaining or maintaining substantially gainful employment.

The Board granted an effective date of June 2, 2023, for the award of service connection for generalized anxiety disorder, severe alcohol use disorder and unspecified depressive disorder and assigned a 70 percent evaluation.

The Board remands the claims for a rating in excess of 50 percent for generalized anxiety disorder and individual unemployability due to incomplete medical records.

The Veteran's service-connected acquired psychiatric disorders have rendered him so helpless as to be in need of regular aid and attendance, thus granting SMC based on aid and attendance.

The Board granted service connection for a generalized anxiety disorder and denied it for a depression condition, while remanding the issue of an increased rating for right knee strain.

The appeal for service connection for adjustment disorder, with mixed anxiety and depressed mood was withdrawn by the Veteran's representative.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and a cervical spine disability, finding credible evidence of in-service events and establishing a nexus to the Veteran's current conditions.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for a psychiatric disability, to include unspecified personality disorder (anxiety, depression, and PTSD), due to insufficient evidence regarding in-service stressors and an inadequate VA examination.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for adjustment disorder with anxiety to correct a duty to assist error, requiring a new VA examination and an adequate medical opinion.

The Board denied service connection for common variable immunodeficiency, a psychiatric disability claimed as generalized anxiety disorder, and hearing loss of the left ear.

The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and a disability rating in excess of 50 percent for generalized anxiety disorder.

The Board remands the Veteran's claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, depression, anxiety, adjustment disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, and substance use disorder, for additional development.

The Board denied a rating in excess of 30 percent for the Veteran's unspecified anxiety disorder, finding that the evidence did not support an increase to a higher schedular rating.

The appeal for service connection for insomnia, depression, anxiety, and anger issues was dismissed as the Veteran withdrew his appeal on December 29, 2023.