Anxiety decisions — 2025

The Board denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including PTSD, GAD, MDD, unspecified trauma and stressor related disorder, and neurocognitive disorder secondary to alcohol abuse, due to a lack of credible evidence supporting the claimed in-service incident.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including anxiety disorder, depression, a psychotic disorder, and PTSD.

The appeals for service connection for anxiety and depression have been withdrawn by the veteran.

The Veteran's service-connected conditions, including bilateral knee osteoarthritis and anxiety disorder, prevented him from maintaining substantially gainful employment.

The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, including depression, unspecified, a generalized anxiety disorder, and primary insomnia, due to duty-to-assist errors.

The Veteran withdrew the appeal for service connection of adjustment disorder with anxiety.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, but denied service connection for high cholesterol and other conditions.,The Board denied service connection for high cholesterol and other conditions.

The Board granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss and denied a compensable disability rating for hypertension. Several issues related to increased ratings were remanded.

The Board remands the claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include major depression with anxious distress, panic disorder without agoraphobia, and general anxiety, as it requires a medical opinion regarding the etiology of the Veteran's claimed condition.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include major depressive disorder and polysubstance dependence, as well as hypertension. The claims for peripheral neuropathy were remanded.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, anxiety, and/or depression, as there was no evidence of a current diagnosis or persistent symptoms during the appeal period.

The veteran withdrew his appeals for service connection and higher ratings, as well as the TDIU claim.

The Board granted a higher initial rating of 70 percent for the Veteran's psychiatric condition and denied an initial compensable rating for hypertension, while also denying service connection for residuals of a traumatic brain injury.

The Board granted service connection for psoriasis with psoriatic arthritis, anxiety disorder with insomnia as secondary to psoriatic arthritis, and migraine headache disability as secondary to anxiety disorder.

The Board granted a 70 percent rating for the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, effective from February 21, 2020.

The Board denied a rating in excess of 70 percent for PTSD and remanded the issue of entitlement to TDIU.

The Board granted service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and an anxiety condition based on the evidence establishing that these conditions are etiologically related to the Veteran's service.

The Board granted service connection for somatic symptom disorder with predominant pain, major depressive disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities.

The appeal seeking revision of the July 2019 rating decision that denied service connection for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is denied.

The Board granted service connection for PTSD, including symptoms of anxiety and depression, related to the Veteran's combat service in Afghanistan.