Anxiety decisions — 2025

The Board remands the case for further development, including verification of service dates and a new medical opinion on direct service connection.

The Board granted readjudication of the claim for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include anxiety and depression, due to new evidence. The claim for service connection for obstructive sleep apnea was denied.

The Board denied service connection for tinnitus and remanded the claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include generalized anxiety disorder.

The Board remands the claims for an increased rating for the Veteran's service-connected back and IVDS disability, as well as GAD, due to an inadequate VA examination.

The Board denied an increased rating for the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder and remanded claims for service connection for hypertension, erectile dysfunction, and TDIU.

The Board finds that new and relevant evidence has been received, warranting readjudication of the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, claimed as anxiety disorder.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for an anxiety condition, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) to obtain a more adequate medical opinion.

The Board remands the claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include unspecified bipolar and related disorder with anxious distress, depression, anxiety, and cyclothymic disorder, as a pre-decisional duty to assist error was made.

The Board granted an effective date of May 23, 2020, for a 100 percent disability rating for major depressive disorder (MDD), severe, without psychotic features, and generalized anxiety disorder.

The Board granted service connection for an eating disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and persistent depressive disorder as they are related to the Veteran's active military service.

The Board remands the claims for further development and to correct duty-to-assist errors.

The Board remands the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include PTSD, for a VA examination and stressor verification.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include anxiety, depression, severe alcohol use disorder and moderate cocaine use disorder due to military sexual trauma (MST), and granted increased ratings for certain service-connected disabilities. The claim for dizziness was dismissed, as was the entitlement to a TDIU.

The Board granted service connection for anxiety, depression, and a psychiatric disorder (including PTSD) but denied service connection for an insomnia disorder.

The Board denied service connection for PTSD due to a lack of credible evidence supporting the Veteran's claimed in-service stressors and a diagnosis that meets VA criteria. The claim for adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, chronic was remanded for further development.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, due to military sexual trauma (MST) for a comprehensive VA medical opinion.

The appeal was dismissed for PTSD, and the claims for service connection for unspecified anxiety disorder, depression, joint pains, chronic sinusitis, a higher rating for allergic rhinitis, and a 10 percent rating based on multiple non-compensable disabilities were denied. The claim for obstructive sleep apnea was remanded.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and a back condition to obtain additional evidence.

The Board denied an initial disability rating in excess of 70 percent for adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, and an initial disability rating in excess of 50 percent for tension headaches.

The Board denied service connection for sleep apnea, left and right knee replacements, depression, anxiety, as there was no evidence of a current disability during the period on appeal. The claims for breast cancer and kidney cancer were remanded for further development.