Depression decisions — 2025

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include anxiety disorder and depressive disorder, resolving reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor.

The Board granted an initial increased disability evaluation to 100 percent for posttraumatic stress disorder and recurrent major depressive disorder due to the Veteran's symptoms of total social and occupational impairment.

The Board denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include depressive disorder and anxiety disorder, due to the lack of a DSM-5 diagnosis.

The appeal for service connection for persistent depressive disorder, moderate, in partial remission was dismissed by the Veteran. The Board will remand the issue of service connection for bilateral plantar warts.

The Board denied an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for PTSD with unspecified depressive disorder, finding that the evidence does not support an effective date prior to August 19, 2013.

The Veteran was granted increased disability ratings for adjustment disorder with anxiety, depression, and insomnia from August 11, 2020 to July 28, 2021, and service connection for tinnitus, headaches, and bilateral shoulder tendinosis. Erectile dysfunction was denied.

The Board granted service connection for major depressive disorder, unspecified schizophrenia and other psychotic disorder based on the evidence being approximately evenly balanced as to whether these conditions are related to the Veteran's service.

The appeal was dismissed as withdrawn by the Appellant.

The Board granted a 70 percent rating for the Veteran's service-connected unspecified depression with anxious distress and a 10 percent rating for his bilateral epididymitis, while denying ratings for his other conditions.

The Board remands the issues of an initial rating in excess of 50 percent for a psychiatric disability, to include PTSD, and entitlement to TDIU prior to September 8, 2018, due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.

The Board grants service connection for major depressive disorder (MDD) based on a nexus to the Veteran's service, including stressors related to his deployment to Vietnam.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an initial rating in excess of 50 percent for depressive disorder with anxious distress, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating.

The Board granted an initial disability rating of 70 percent, but no higher, for the service-connected major depressive disorder from February 9, 2022.

The Board denied service connection for depression, and remanded the claims for sinusitis and migraines due to an inextricably intertwined issue regarding the character of discharge from service.

The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for an evaluation in excess of 70 percent for persistent depressive disorder, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating.

The Board granted an increased rating of 100 percent for major depressive disorder with anxious distress and alcohol use disorder, but dismissed the claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.

The Board remands the claims for service connection and increased rating due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error.

The Board denied a rating in excess of 70 percent for the Veteran's major depressive disorder, recurrent, moderate including anxiety disorder and remanded claims for service connection for respiratory system disability and sleep apnea.

The Board granted service connection for depressive disorder effective November 15, 2018 and special monthly compensation (SMC) for loss of use of creative organ effective September 1, 2003.

The Board remands the issue of entitlement to a rating in excess of 70 percent for other specified and trauma and stressor related disorder with unspecified depressive disorder with anxious distress due to a duty to assist error.