Anxiety decisions — 2025

The Board granted service connection for generalized anxiety disorder, finding that the evidence is in at least approximate balance as to whether the Veteran began experiencing anxiety-related psychiatric symptoms during his active-duty service and that there is a medical nexus between the Veteran's current psychiatric disability and his in-service psychiatric symptoms.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including PTSD, MDD, and anxiety disorder.

The Board denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD and unspecified anxiety disorder, as well as initial ratings for the Veteran's right knee conditions.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include insomnia and GAD, and obstructive sleep apnea based on the Veteran's in-service experiences during the Gulf War.

The Board granted service connection for depressive disorder and anxiety disorder as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected low back disability due to the evidence being in relative equipoise.

The Board denied a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss and remanded the claims for service connection for various disabilities, including left knee, right knee, left wrist, right wrist, back, OSA, anxiety disorder, eating/feeding disorder, radicular pain in the right lower extremity, and tinnitus.

The Board remands the case to attempt to verify in-service stressors and obtain an addendum opinion regarding the etiology of the Veteran's claimed acquired psychiatric condition.

The Board denied service connection for generalized anxiety disorder and a low back condition, finding that the evidence did not support a causal link between these conditions and the Veteran's military service.

The Board granted service connection for generalized anxiety disorder, persistent depressive disorder, sinusitis, and tinnitus. A 10 percent rating was granted for chronic headaches from December 22, 2021.

The Board denied service connection for tinnitus and remanded the issue of an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, and other specified trauma and stressor related disorder.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection and an increased rating, finding that the evidence did not support a diagnosis of any of the claimed conditions or establish a link between those conditions and his military service.

The Board granted service connection for multiple sclerosis (MS) right and left upper and lower extremity muscle weakness, adjustment disorder with anxiety, depressed mood, and insomnia, effective March 12, 2019. The denial of earlier effective dates for voiding dysfunction, erectile dysfunction, special monthly compensation, and higher ratings was affirmed.

The Board denied a rating in excess of 70 percent for bipolar disorder and unspecified anxiety disorder, but granted earlier effective dates for individual unemployability, special monthly compensation based on housebound criteria, and Dependents' Educational Assistance.

The Board remands the claim for verification of the Veteran's confinement due to alcohol use during service and an addendum opinion regarding the etiology of a psychiatric disorder.

The Board granted a 70 percent rating for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and denied service connection for various other conditions, including cluster headaches, traumatic brain injury, allergic rhinitis, and others. Some claims were remanded.

The Veteran withdrew his appeal for service connection claims related to hypertension, stroke, speech difficulty, anxiety disorder, depression, and vision difficulty.

The Board remands the claims for an initial rating higher than 50 percent for an unspecified anxiety disorder with alcohol dependence, and service connection for a low back disability, left hip disability, right hip disability, and right knee disability due to pre-decisional errors of the duty to assist.

The Board denied service connection for depression, an anxiety disorder, bilateral hearing loss, a back disorder, and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) as there is no evidence of current diagnoses or symptoms reasonably associated with these conditions.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) to obtain an etiological opinion and correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error.

The Board granted service connection for glomerulonephritis status post kidney transplant as secondary to hypertension, an adjustment disorder and generalized anxiety disorder as secondary to glomerulonephritis status post kidney transplant, and other specified stress and trauma disorder as secondary to the service-connected right knee disability.