Anxiety decisions — 2025

The Board denied service connection for various conditions, including an acquired psychiatric disorder, tinnitus, gastrointestinal issues, foot pain, hand scars, shin splints, migraines, thoracolumbar spine condition, and respiratory condition, as the evidence did not support a finding that any of these conditions were incurred in or aggravated by active military service.

The Board granted an initial 30 percent rating for the Veteran's unspecified anxiety disorder, finding that the severity of his symptoms more closely approximated occupational and social impairment with occasional decrease in work efficiency and intermittent periods of inability to perform occupational tasks.

The Board granted service connection for a headache disability and assigned ratings of 70 percent, 20 percent, and 10 percent for generalized anxiety disorder, right ankle osteoarthritis, and right gamekeepers thumb respectively. The claims for increased ratings for sinusitis, bilateral hearing loss, hypertension, and the remaining conditions were denied.

The Board denied service connection for GERD, anxiety, and hypertension. The low back pain issue was remanded.

The Veteran is granted special monthly compensation based on the need of regular aid and attendance due to his service-connected disabilities, which include rheumatoid arthritis affecting multiple joints and other conditions.

The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss and remanded the claims for an initial disability rating in excess of 30 percent for adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, a compensable rating for allergic rhinitis, service connection for sinusitis, tension headaches, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) also claimed as insomnia.

The Board denied a rating in excess of 70 percent for adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood but granted TDIU and SMC at the housebound rate.

The Board denied service connection for sleep apnea, a compensable rating for erectile dysfunction, and special monthly compensation (SMC) for more than one loss of use of a single creative organ. The Board remanded the claims for service connection for depression, generalized anxiety disorder, and insomnia.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for adjustment disorder with anxiety disorder and pes cavus, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating.

The Board granted an initial rating of 70 percent for adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, but not higher.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include anxiety and depression, for a VA examination.

The Board granted an initial 100 percent rating for the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, to include GAD and MDD, from August 28, 2017, to June 9, 2024.

The Board granted service connection for pulmonary vascular disease and unspecified anxiety disorder as secondary conditions, along with increased ratings for chronic sinusitis and hypothyroidism.

The Board granted an effective date of December 20, 2007 for the grant of service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder and increased ratings to 70% from March 27, 2020 to June 5, 2020, and 100% from June 5, 2020. The claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability was denied.

The Board dismissed the appeal for service connection of migraine headaches, denied an initial disability rating in excess of 70 percent for generalized anxiety disorder, and remanded the claim for service connection of an abdominal/intestinal disability.

The Board granted service connection for genital herpes and adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood as secondary to the service-connected genital herpes, but denied service connection for PTSD.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, including major depressive disorder, anxiety, depression, PTSD and insomnia, as there was no medical evidence linking these conditions to his service or any in-service event.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an increased rating for generalized anxiety disorder, finding that the evidence did not support a rating in excess of 70 percent.

The Board granted a 100 percent initial schedular disability rating for the Veteran's unspecified depressive and anxiety disorder with alcohol use disorder, while remanding other issues for further development.

The Board denied service connection for tinnitus and anxiety, finding no evidence of a current diagnosis or in-service incurrence.