Depression decisions — 2025

The Board remands the claim for service connection of a psychiatric disability, including PTSD, major depressive disorder, and insomnia disorder, due to unverified stressors and the need for a VA examination.

The Board granted an effective date of October 5, 2021 for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to the Veteran's major depressive disorder.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include PTSD, resolving reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor based on a corroborated in-service stressor event.

The Board granted service connection for bilateral tinnitus and an initial 70 percent rating, but not higher, for persistent depressive disorder with anxious distress. Other claims were denied or remanded.

The Veteran was granted a temporary total disability rating of 100 percent for inpatient treatment over 21 days due to service-connected persistent depressive disorder and cocaine disorder from February 5, 2024, to March 18, 2024.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for a TDIU due solely to service-connected major depressive disorder and special monthly compensation (SMC) at the rate set out at 38 U.S.C. § 1114(s)(1).

The Veteran was granted a rating of 70 percent for persistent depressive disorder and unspecified trauma and stressor related disorder prior to April 25, 2024, and the claim for TDIU was also granted.

The Board granted service connection for major depressive disorder with psychotic features and alcohol use disorder, finding that both conditions were related to the Veteran's military service.

The Veteran was granted a temporary total evaluation from October 2, 2019, to October 24, 2019, for his service-connected major depressive disorder with anxious distress and stimulant use disorder due to inpatient treatment exceeding 21 days.

The Board granted earlier effective dates for the award of service connection for left and right lower extremity varicose veins, depression, OSA, and headaches, but denied service connection for left and right arm chronic venous insufficiency. The increased rating claim for headaches was dismissed.

The Board granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities.

The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for PTSD with major depression disorder for further development, specifically to obtain outstanding VA treatment records from 2012.

The Board denied a disability rating in excess of 70 percent for persistent depressive disorder with persistent major depressive disorder but granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) and special monthly compensation effective October 9, 2020.

The Board remands the case to have the agency of original jurisdiction adjudicate the claim for an earlier effective date for service connection for PTSD with unspecified depressive disorder.

The Board denied service connection for PTSD, depression, and anxiety as the probative evidence did not support a finding of a current disability related to active service.

The Board granted restoration of service connection for a psychiatric disorder characterized as major depressive disorder with anxious distress, effective May 2, 2023.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, variously characterized as alcohol use disorder and anxiety/depression with insomnia or unspecified depressive disorder with insomnia with non-sleep mental comorbidity (AUD), but dismissed the appeal regarding a temporary total evaluation based on hospital treatment in excess of 21 days.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depression, right knee disability, and left knee disability.

The Board remands the Veteran's claim for service connection for unspecified depressive disorder to obtain a more adequate medical opinion addressing whether the condition pre-existed service and, if so, whether it was aggravated by service.

The appeal for service connection for PTSD and major depressive disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, insomnia, alcohol use disorder, and adjustment disorder was dismissed by the Veteran.