Bipolar disorder decisions — 2025

The Board granted an initial 100 percent rating for unspecified personality disorder, intermittent explosive disorder, and bipolar disorder from November 25, 2022.

The Board granted an effective date of June 3, 2020, for the grant of a 100 percent evaluation for unspecified bipolar and related disorder.

The Board denied an initial rating greater than 70 percent for bipolar disorder and a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.

The Board granted service connection for bipolar disorder and a neurocognitive disorder, finding that the evidence supports a causal relationship between these conditions and the Veteran's service at Camp Lejeune.

The Board granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities, while denying increased ratings for bipolar I disorder and social anxiety disorder with cued panic attacks, radiculopathy of the right lower extremity, and a compensable rating for cervicogenic headaches.

The Veteran's service-connected schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type is granted a 100 percent disability rating from August 13, 2019, but no earlier.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including PTSD, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder (MDD), and anxiety, resolving reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor.

The Board restored the 70 percent rating for bipolar disorder from October 1, 2021, and denied a rating in excess of 70 percent.

The Board denied service connection for bipolar disorder, hypertension as secondary to PTSD, anxiety disorder and hypochondria, tinnitus, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to insufficient evidence of a current diagnosis or nexus to service.

The Board granted a 100 percent rating for bipolar I disorder from June 21, 2021, and a TDIU from November 20, 2018, to June 21, 2021.

The Board granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) but denied an earlier effective date and a higher initial disability rating for unspecified bipolar and related disorder.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for PTSD, depression, and bipolar disorder due to a need for additional evidence.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including bipolar and/or schizoaffective disorder, to correct duty to assist errors.

The Board remands the claim for a psychiatric condition, including bipolar disorder to obtain additional evidence and provide the Veteran with a VA examination.

The Board granted service connection for bipolar disorder and left foot disability, both on a direct basis.

The Board remands the claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder to obtain a new VA etiology opinion due to an inadequate previous opinion.

The Board granted an earlier effective date of May 11, 2010 for the award of service connection for schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type and remanded the issue of entitlement to basic eligibility to Dependents' Educational Assistance.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric condition, to include chronic anxiety, social withdrawal, depression, and bipolar disorder, as additional evidence must be considered.

The Veteran was granted an earlier effective date of August 22, 2019, for a total disability rating based upon individual unemployability (TDIU) and Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA), as well as February 21, 2020, for special monthly compensation (SMC) due to housebound status. The COPD was rated at 100 percent.

The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for PTSD and bipolar disorder.