Depression decisions — 2025

The Board remands the Veteran's claim for SMC based on a need for regular aid and attendance of another person due to an inadequate VA examination and conflicting evidence regarding the impact of her service-connected conditions.

The appeal for service connection for recurrent left shoulder dislocation residuals, a back disability, depression, and total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities (TDIU) is dismissed due to the Veteran's death.

The Board granted service connection for anxiety and depression, both secondary to the Veteran's service-connected paranoid schizophrenia.

The Board restored the 70 percent rating for PTSD and major depressive disorder, effective February 1, 2024, as the reduction was improper. The claim for a higher rating for low back disability was dismissed.

The Board dismissed the appeal for service connection for major depressive disorder due to a lack of jurisdiction as no rating decision was issued within an allowable timeframe.

The Board denied the appellant's eligibility for direct payment of attorney fees based on past-due benefits awarded in the January 2023 rating decision.

The Veteran withdrew his appeal for an increased rating for depressive disorder with mixed features of anxiety and depressed mood.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and sinusitis, while denying service connection for other conditions. It also granted a 50 percent rating for migraines associated with a TBI.

The Board denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder, as the evidence of record does not support a finding that these conditions are related to the Veteran's active military service.

The Board granted service connection for generalized anxiety disorder and major depression, finding that these conditions were incurred in service.

The Board denied increased ratings for the Veteran's service-connected conditions, except for a 20 percent rating for right lower extremity radiculopathy (sciatic nerve) and left lower extremity radiculopathy (sciatic nerve), which was granted from January 21, 2020, to October 11, 2020. The Board also granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.

The Board granted an initial 70 percent evaluation for posttraumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder with anxious distress, and insomnia disorder.

The Board remands the claim for an acquired psychiatric disability other than PTSD, to include depression, mood swings, and sleep disorder, as a pre-decisional duty-to-assist error occurred when the AOJ did not provide a VA examination on this issue.

The Board denied service connection for bilateral foot disorders, a compensable disability rating for bilateral hearing loss, a compensable disability rating for migraine headache disorder, and a higher 70 percent disability rating for depressive disorder.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for anxiety, neurobehavioral effects, Barrett's esophagus, a kidney condition, and a liver condition due to exposure to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune.

The Board granted an earlier effective date of January 27, 2009, for the award of service connection for PTSD with alcohol use disorder and major depressive disorder.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include PTSD, for a VA examination.

The Board denied service connection for an eye disability, a disability manifesting in abnormal weight loss, and increased ratings for depressive disorder with anxious distress, scarring alopecia and scarring, and painful, residual scars associated with scarring alopecia. The Board also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service connected disability.

The Board granted service connection for unspecified anxiety disorder with major depressive disorder, recurrent episode, severe, with psychotic features due to its onset during the Veteran's second period of active-duty service.

The veteran withdrew the appeal for service connection for depression and alcohol abuse, and the Board has no jurisdiction to review this matter.