Anxiety decisions — 2025

The Board remands the matters of entitlement to an initial compensable rating for migraine headaches and an initial rating higher than 30 percent for adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood due to inadequate examination reports.

The Board denied the appeal seeking restoration of a 70% rating for generalized anxiety disorder, finding an overall improvement in the condition under ordinary conditions of daily life to warrant a reduction in rating.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for bilateral hearing loss, PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder, alcohol abuse disorder, and other specified depressive disorder to ensure a complete record is available for adjudication.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for various conditions, including a psychiatric disorder, ED, left wrist disorder, right knee disorder, left knee disorder, and thoracolumbar spine disorder, to verify the Veteran's periods of active duty (AD), active duty for training (ADT), and inactive duty for training (IDT) and to obtain additional evidence regarding the claimed in-service stressors.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, specifically anxiety, and denied service connection for loss of teeth. The claims for service connection for a left hip, left foot, left shoulder disability, migraines, PCOS, and multiple non-compensable disabilities were remanded.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include insomnia and anxiety, claimed as secondary to tinnitus due to duty to assist errors.

The Board denied a rating in excess of 50 percent for the Veteran's unspecified anxiety disorder with alcohol use disorder prior to June 15, 2020, and in excess of 70 percent thereafter. However, it granted ratings of 30 percent for left upper radicular peripheral neuropathy, 40 percent for right upper radicular peripheral neuropathy, 20 percent for left lower extremity sciatic nerve radiculopathy, and 20 percent for right lower extremity sciatic nerve radiculopathy.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for various conditions, including cervical strain, lumbosacral strain and bilateral lower extremity radiculopathy, knee strains, psychiatric disorders, hypertension, obstructive sleep apnea, tinnitus, shoulder disabilities, breathing disability, foot disability, headache disability, and joint disability, to provide the Veteran an additional opportunity for examinations and opinions.

The Veteran withdrew his appeal for all service connection claims, and the Board has no jurisdiction to review them.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, diagnosed as PTSD, major depressive disorder, and social anxiety disorder, related to the Veteran's active service.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for anxiety, insomnia, and migraines to correct pre-decisional duty to assist omissions.

The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for a higher disability rating for his service-connected adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, finding that the severity of his symptoms did not more closely approximate occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity.

The Board granted service connection for PTSD, adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, and asthma based on the evidence showing a link to the Veteran's active-duty service.

The Board remands the claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include anxiety condition, depression, and PTSD, as VA failed to obtain a medical examination with an opinion to determine whether the Veteran's psychiatric disorder had its onset in service or is otherwise causally related to service.

The appeal for service connection for progressive supranuclear palsy and anxiety disorder is dismissed as the Veteran's symptoms are subsumed by an already awarded service connection for progressive supranuclear palsy with dementia.

The Board granted a 70 percent rating for PTSD and adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood from January 26, 2021 to February 22, 2022, but denied an earlier effective date of October 28, 2019.

The appeal was dismissed due to the Veteran's death while it was pending.

The Board granted restoration of the 50 percent disability rating for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and remanded issues related to a higher rating, service connection for ED, and TDIU.

The Board granted service connection for asthma based on the PACT Act, but denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss disability, sleep disturbances, depression, and anxiety. The claims for a headache disability, sleep apnea, back disability, and infertility were remanded.

The Board denied an initial rating in excess of 50 percent for the Veteran's unspecified anxiety disorder, finding that the disability manifested with occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity.