Anxiety decisions — 2025

The Board denied earlier effective dates for the increased ratings of sinusitis and generalized anxiety disorder due to a lack of factually ascertainable evidence supporting such claims.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, diagnosed as generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder.

The Board denied service connection for anxiety, depression, pes planus in both feet, and a hammer toe on the left foot due to lack of evidence of current disability.

The Board granted a 100 percent rating for locally recurrent prostate cancer and special monthly compensation (SMC) at the housebound rate from November 1, 2025.

The Board denied the Veteran's claims for earlier effective dates for increased ratings and special benefits, finding no evidence of worsening conditions within a year prior to June 9, 2023.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an increased rating in excess of 70 percent for posttraumatic stress disorder, cannabis use disorder, alcohol use disorder, and adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood to include insomnia symptoms (PTSD).

The Board granted an earlier effective date of November 26, 2012, for the award of service connection with a 70 percent rating for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD and anxiety disorder.

The Board remands the claim for service connection of unspecified mood disorder with generalized anxiety disorder, somatic symptom disorder, and alcohol use disorder to correct a duty to assist error.

The appeal regarding service connection for unspecified anxiety disorder is dismissed as the disability was granted, and there remains no justiciable case or controversy with respect to this claim.

The Board denied service connection for various conditions, including an acquired psychiatric disorder, sleep disorders, right foot disability, migraine, erectile dysfunction, and right elbow, shoulder, and knee disabilities.

The Board granted service connection for anxiety and remanded the claim for chronic joint pain due to exposure to TERAs.

The Board granted service connection for PTSD with other specified psychiatric disabilities, finding a current diagnosis and a verified in-service stressor related to combat experience during Persian Gulf service.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, including unspecified depression and anxiety, as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected tinnitus and bilateral hearing loss.

The appeal concerning entitlement to service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been withdrawn and is therefore dismissed.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and alcohol use disorder, finding that the appellant's mental health symptoms began during active service and continued since.

The Board remands the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, depression, anxiety, and other specified trauma and stressor related disorder, due to an inadequate medical opinion.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and an anxiety condition due to a duty to assist error in obtaining adequate medical examinations.

The Board remands the service connection claim for cause of death to obtain an addendum opinion addressing whether the Veteran's generalized anxiety disorder, including side effects from medications used to treat it, caused or contributed substantially to his intracranial hemorrhage and subsequent death.

The veteran withdrew his appeal for service connection for generalized anxiety disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and insomnia.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, variously diagnosed as unspecified depressive disorder, adjustment disorder, anxiety not otherwise specified, and insomnia, due to the Veteran's in-service stressor involving an explosion during his deployment to Afghanistan.