Anxiety decisions — 2025

The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, as a pre-decisional duty to assist error has occurred.

The Board remands the claims for service connection due to duty to assist errors and the need for a medical examination under the PACT Act.

The Board granted service connection for shin splints and denied it for high cholesterol. The remaining claims for service connection for left ankle condition, right ankle condition, right foot plantar fasciitis, anxiety condition, and PTSD were remanded.

The Veteran's depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, and insomnia disorder with alcohol use disorder are due to his service-connected large B-cell lymphoma of the central nervous system and cause total occupational and social impairment.

The Board dismissed the appeal for a procedural defect related to an impermissible concurrent election of review options.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, low back, right and left knee disabilities, generalized anxiety disorder, other specified depressive disorder, and somatic symptom disorder to obtain additional evidence.

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, but remanded claims for right and left hip osteoarthritis, sleep apnea, and TDIU.

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and remanded the claims for anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, and bilateral hearing loss for further development.

The Board denied an evaluation in excess of 30 percent for the service-connected unspecified anxiety disorder with insomnia disorder, as the Veteran's symptoms did not meet the criteria for a higher rating.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, as well as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) secondary to a service-connected depression disability.

All claims for service connection and increased disability ratings have been withdrawn by the appellant, thus they are dismissed.

The Board granted service connection for an unspecified anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder, finding a nexus between the Veteran's mental health symptoms and her hardship discharge during active service.

The Board granted service connection for generalized anxiety disorder, finding the evidence to be in relative equipoise as to whether it was incurred in or caused by service.

The veteran has withdrawn the appeal for all service connection claims.

The Board granted an earlier effective date of September 26, 2003, for the award of service connection for acquired psychiatric conditions and denied a maximum 100 percent disability rating. TDIU was granted, but SMC based on the need for regular aid and attendance was denied.

The Board denied an earlier effective date for the grant of a 70 percent disability rating for adjustment disorder with anxiety, as there was no evidence that an increase in disability had occurred prior to April 12, 2023.

The Veteran was granted an initial 50 percent rating for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and a TDIU since March 1, 2020.

The Board granted service connection for a cervical spine disability and bilateral hearing loss, while denying service connection for asthma, anxiety disorder, adjustment disorder, depressive disorder, GERD, migraines (also claimed as headaches), insomnia, left hip disability, right hip disability, and plantar fasciitis.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for PTSD, major depressive disorder, anxiety, hearing loss, and a degenerative spine condition due to VA's failure to obtain relevant records from the Social Security Administration (SSA) and its failure to properly schedule examinations.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error, as no VA examination or medical opinion addressing the etiology of the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disability has been conducted.