Anxiety decisions — 2025

The Veteran's adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood has been granted a disability rating of 70 percent, effective June 14, 2021.

The Veteran's unspecified anxiety disorder with depressed mood has been granted a 70 percent rating, and his TDIU claim has also been granted, both effective from November 9, 2018.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for anxiety and major depression to schedule a VA examination due to the Veteran's failure to report for an initial examination without good cause.

The Board granted service connection for a psychiatric disorder, diagnosed as anxiety, based on the Veteran's active duty for training (ADUTRA) service.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder, an acquired psychiatric disorder other than PTSD, a respiratory disability, and migraine headaches due to deficiencies in the duty to assist.

The appeal was granted, allowing the direct payment of attorney fees based on past-due benefits awarded for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and additional compensation for a dependent.

The Board granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) but denied an increased rating in excess of 70 percent for adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood.

The appeal for service connection for anxiety was dismissed as the Board had already adjudicated the matter in a separate decision.

The Board granted service connection for hypertensive headaches as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected hypertension and an acquired psychiatric disorder, diagnosed as anxiety disorder.

The Board granted a 70 percent disability rating for the Veteran's specified anxiety disorder and service connection for obstructive sleep apnea, to include as secondary to another service-connected disability.

The Board dismissed service connection for a thyroid condition and ovarian cancer, as these conditions were already granted in a previous rating decision. The remaining issues are remanded for further development.

The Veteran's service-connected adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood was granted an initial rating of 50 percent, but no higher. The other claims for service connection were remanded.

The Board remands the matter to obtain additional evidence and provide a retrospective opinion regarding the nature of the Veteran's service-connected PTSD associated with sleep disorder, nightmares, anxiety with mood disorder dating back to at least April 7, 1997.

The appeal for service connection for anxiety disorder, a bilateral foot disability, and impaired vision with bilateral cataracts and dry eye syndrome was dismissed due to the untimely filing of the Board Appeal request.

The Board granted readjudication of the claim for service connection for anxiety due to new and relevant evidence, while denying readjudication for bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, and PTSD as no such evidence was submitted.

The Board granted an initial rating of 70 percent for unspecified anxiety disorder, but denied ratings in excess of 10 percent for the lumbar disorder and other conditions.

The Board granted an earlier effective date of January 3, 2020, for the 70 percent evaluation of unspecified anxiety disorder and a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU).

The Board remands the claims for service connection for PTSD, bipolar disorder (including alcohol use disorder and anxiety), and major depressive disorder to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors.

The Board remands the claim for an addendum opinion as to whether the Veteran's psychiatric disability is related to his service due to inadequacies in the previous VA examiner's opinion.

The Board remands the matter for a VA examination to determine the likely etiology of the Veteran's claimed acquired psychiatric disorder.