Anxiety decisions — 2025

The Board granted a 70 percent rating for anxiety disorder prior to June 23, 2021, and denied a higher rating from that date. The Board also denied a compensable rating for headaches prior to July 29, 2014, and a total disability rating based on individual unemployability.

The Board granted service connection for adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, but denied service connection for left shoulder pain, eye pain, and a higher rating for right ear hearing loss.

The Board granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to the Veteran's service-connected unspecified anxiety disorder, sinusitis and migraine headache disabilities.

The Board remands the claim for service connection of generalized anxiety disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder due to an inadequate VA medical opinion.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as new and relevant evidence has been received since the prior denial.

The Board remands the Veteran's claims for service connection for various conditions, including a psychiatric disability, sleep disorder, skin cancer residuals, prostate cancer residuals, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and dementia, due to insufficient evidence regarding his Vietnam or Thailand service.

The Board granted a 100 percent initial rating for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) due to symptoms of total social and occupational impairment, rendering the issue of entitlement to TDIU moot.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, effective January 15, 2025.

The Board granted service connection for major depressive disorder and unspecified anxiety disorder, finding that these conditions are secondary to the Veteran's multiple service-connected disabilities.

The Board granted service connection for panic disorder with agoraphobia and generalized anxiety disorder, finding that the Veteran's mental disorder began during his active service and is caused by in-service events.

The Board denied service connection for all the claimed conditions as there was no competent evidence that any of these disabilities were incurred in or aggravated by active military service.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for tinnitus, migraine headaches, a low back condition, a left wrist condition, right and left knee conditions, depression, anxiety, and sleep disturbances to correct an error by the RO in scheduling VA examinations prior to the rating decision on appeal.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability and hypertension to correct errors in the duty to assist, specifically regarding an inadequate VA psychiatric examination.

The Veteran was granted a total rating due to service-connected coronary artery disease as of December 6, 2018. A TDIU is warranted from November 24, 2014, and an evaluation greater than 50 percent for general anxiety disorder before October 8, 2024, was denied.

The appeal seeking service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include generalized anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, was dismissed due to the untimely filing of a notice of disagreement.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability and a gastrointestinal disability, identified as adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and chronic depressed mood and gastritis respectively. The claims for skin disability, high cholesterol, sleep apnea, back disability, fibromyalgia, and headaches were remanded.

The Board denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, other than PTSD, and granted service connection for hypertension.

The Veteran withdrew his appeals for service connection for anxiety condition and major depression.

The Board remands the claims for an initial increased rating for generalized anxiety disorder and entitlement to TDIU due to an inadequate VA examination.

The appeal of the proposed reduction in the evaluation of adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood is dismissed because there was no appealable decision regarding this matter.