Depression decisions — 2025

The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include bipolar disorder, alcohol use disorder, depression, and anxiety due to inadequate medical opinions.

The Board denied an initial evaluation higher than 30 percent for service-connected persistent depression with anxious distress and remanded the claims for service connection for various conditions.

The Board granted a rating of 70 percent for adjustment disorder with anxiety, depression, cannabis use disorder, and alcohol use disorder and a rating of 40 percent for radiculopathy of the right upper extremity secondary to cervicalgia with degenerative arthritis and IVDS.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an initial compensable rating for pseudofolliculitis barbae and remanded claims for service connection for bilateral tinnitus, a low back disability, generalized anxiety disorder, and left lower extremity radiculopathy.

The Board granted service connection for a back condition but dismissed claims for anxiety, depression, PTSD, right hip replacement, kidney stones, and denied service connection for actinic keratosis.

The Board granted service connection for major depression disorder and PTSD, but denied earlier effective dates for the back disability and right lower extremity radiculopathies.

The Board granted a 50 percent disability rating for major depressive disorder with anxiety from August 31, 2019, and denied an effective date prior to August 31, 2020, for the grant of service connection and separate ratings for bilateral lower extremity radiculopathy.

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 Veteran withdrew the appeal of service connection for depression, and the Board dismissed the claim.

The Board granted service connection for major depressive disorder (MDD) based on the evidence being at least evenly balanced as to whether it is related to service.

The Board denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, PTSD, and an unspecified sleep disorder due to a lack of evidence linking these conditions to the Veteran's active service. The Board also denied increased ratings for ring finger and little finger limitation of motion, allergic rhinitis, and multiple noncompensable disabilities.

The Board denied the claims for entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and entitlement to a TDIU due to insufficient evidence of a nexus between the Veteran's current major depressive disorder and his in-service events.

The Board granted a rating of 70 percent for Parkinson's with persistent depressive disorder from April 25, 2023, but denied an increased rating prior to that date.

The Board granted service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder but denied service connection for depressive disorder, NOS and bipolar disorder. The issue of individual unemployability is remanded.

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 Board granted a disability rating of 100 percent for major depressive disorder with anxious distress, as the Veteran's symptoms caused total occupational and social impairment.

The Board denied service connection for sleep apnea and remanded the claims for an anxiety disorder with depression and PTSD due to a need for additional evidence.

The Board denied service connection for depression and schizoaffective disorder, finding that the evidence did not support a link between these conditions and the Veteran's period of active service.

The Board remands the claim for service connection of depression as secondary to a service-connected condition due to insufficient evidence.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for depression, hearing loss, and obstructive sleep apnea to correct an error in failing to provide notice of the right to a pre-decisional hearing.