Anxiety Board decisions

The veteran's service-connected generalized anxiety disorder is currently rated at 50 percent, and the Board finds that a higher rating is not warranted based on the evidence.

The veteran's service-connected anxiety disorder is manifested by significant occupational and social impairment, warranting a 70 percent disability rating.

The veteran's disabilities are all nonservice-connected and do not meet the criteria for special monthly pension in the form of housebound benefits.

The Board has granted a 50 percent evaluation for the veteran's service-connected psychoneurosis, anxiety state. The heart disability is not considered secondary to the service-connected condition.

The Board has granted service connection for bladder cancer, depression, and anxiety.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for swollen feet and an acquired psychiatric disorder, including paranoid schizophrenia. The denial was based on a lack of evidence to support these claims.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for an increased evaluation for her hypothyroidism and service connection for calcium depletion, obesity, anxiety, and depression as secondary to her service-connected hypothyroidism. The RO must review the case in light of the Veterans Claims Assistance Act of 2000.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for an anxiety disorder, including PTSD, due to a lack of evidence linking his current condition to his military service.

The Board denied service connection for a lipoma of the back claimed as a residual of exposure to Agent Orange and did not grant an increased rating for anxiety reaction.

The Board has reopened the veteran's claim of service connection for an innocently acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, due to new and material evidence. The issue of hearing loss is remanded.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for a mental disorder, ischemic heart disease as a residual of beri berri, and poor vision. The Board also denied his request for an extraschedular evaluation for his lumbosacral spine disability.

The Board has granted a 50% rating for the veteran's generalized anxiety disorder, effective from December 1994.

The Board has determined that the initial 10 percent rating for generalized anxiety disorder remains appropriate, as it does not meet the criteria for a higher evaluation. The veteran's service-connected right and left knee disabilities have been rated appropriately.

The veteran's claim for an increased rating for a psychiatric disorder diagnosed as despondent disorder with general anxiety and hypochondriasis was denied by the RO. The veteran requested a videoconference hearing, but his preference is unclear.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for a disability rating in excess of 30 percent for anxiety neurosis, finding that neither the original nor revised rating criteria were more favorable to him.

The veteran's service-connected generalized anxiety disorder is currently rated at 30 percent, and the Board has determined that this rating remains appropriate.

The veteran's claims for service connection for chronic anxiety disorder and to reopen the previously denied claim for PTSD are being remanded due to the need for further development under the Veterans Claims Assistance Act of 2000.

The Board denied service connection for a psychiatric disorder, including PTSD, and other claimed disabilities due to lack of evidence of an in-service stressor.

The Board found that the veteran does not have PTSD and his generalized anxiety disorder was not incurred in or aggravated by service.

The Board has granted the veteran's claims for service connection for PTSD and Generalized Anxiety Disorder, finding that new evidence supports reopening of these previously denied claims.