Anxiety decisions — 2025

The Board granted service connection for Hashimoto's thyroiditis and denied an increased rating for the Veteran's anxiety disorder.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for an initial compensable disability rating for right ear hearing loss, service connection for anxiety disorder, and service connection for left ear hearing loss.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, major depressive disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder.

The Board granted restoration of the 70% rating for PTSD with alcohol use disorder and service connection for depression and anxiety, as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected PTSD.

The Board granted an effective date of June 23, 2022, for the award of a 50 percent rating for adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood.

The Board granted a disability rating of 100 percent for the Veteran's psychiatric disability from December 1, 2024, to December 8, 2024.

The Board granted an effective date of May 20, 2024 for the award of a 100 percent rating for coronary artery disease with coronary artery bypass graft and right bundle branch block, but no earlier. The Board also granted an effective date of June 28, 2024 for the award of a 50 percent rating for unspecified anxiety disorder, but no earlier.

The appeal for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, claimed as anxiety, was dismissed due to the grant of PTSD in a subsequent rating decision.

The Board denied an earlier effective date for the award of service connection for a psychiatric disability, associated with service-connected dyshidrotic eczema.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include insomnia disorder, persistent with mental comorbidity of anxiety, and social anxiety disorder with panic attacks.

The Board remands the claim for service connection of an acquired psychiatric disability, as it finds a pre-decisional duty to assist error due to lack of transportation preventing the Veteran from attending a scheduled examination.

The appeal was dismissed because the Veteran did not timely file a Board Appeal request with respect to the rating decision issued on January 26, 2022.

The Board granted service connection for a psychiatric disorder, diagnosed as depressive disorder and anxiety disorder, finding the evidence to be at least evenly balanced as to whether the Veteran's psychiatric disorder had its onset in service.

The Board denied service connection for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to the lack of a current diagnosis, and remanded other claims for further development.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, chronic, based on the Veteran's reported experiences during National Guard service.

The Board denied earlier effective dates for the grant of service connection for generalized anxiety disorder, migraine headaches, and special monthly compensation on account of loss of use of a creative organ.

The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for an earlier effective date of September 22, 2022, for service connection for erectile dysfunction and special monthly compensation based on loss of use of a creative organ.

The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for a rating in excess of 30 percent for service-connected adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, as the evidence did not support occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, left knee strain with instability, and right knee strain to obtain additional evidence and a VA examination.

The Board denied increased ratings for psychiatric disabilities, liver disability, and painful scars of the anterior trunk but granted service connection for tinnitus, urinary incontinence, left knee patellofemoral pain syndrome, and right knee patellofemoral pain syndrome.