Depression decisions — 2025

The Board granted earlier effective dates for the awards of service connection and ratings, including IVDS with degenerative arthritis, right and left lower extremity radiculopathy, major depressive disorder (MDD), and eligibility for Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA).

The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for a rating in excess of 70 percent for service-connected acquired psychiatric disorders, finding that his symptoms did not warrant a higher disability rating.

The Board denied service connection for hepatic stenosis, COPD, CHF, and depression, as well as a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss.

The appeals for increased ratings of the Veteran's service-connected conditions were dismissed due to a procedural defect in the appeal process.

The Board granted service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder and depressive disorder, as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected knee and shin splint disabilities.

The Board granted service connection for major depressive disorder, TMJ and bruxism, and headaches but denied it for loss of smell.

The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for a rating in excess of 70 percent for major depressive disorder, as the evidence did not support a higher rating.

The Veteran's major depressive disorder with psychotic features was granted a 100 percent disability rating from April 24, 2014, due to total occupational and social impairment.

The appeal for service connection for depression was dismissed due to the Veteran's death.

The Board granted readjudication of the claim for service connection for hearing loss and an initial 50 percent disability rating for depressive disorder.

The Board denied a rating in excess of 70 percent for the Veteran's service-connected major depressive disorder with anxious distress and cocaine use disorder, as the severity, frequency, and duration of symptoms did not more nearly approximate total occupational and social impairment.

The Board granted an initial evaluation of 70 percent for major depressive disorder (MDD), recurrent, moderate with anxious distress.

The Board denied a rating in excess of 70 percent for the Veteran's service-connected acquired psychiatric disorder, finding that the evidence did not support total occupational and social impairment.

The appeals for service connection for sleep apnea, depression, erectile dysfunction, hypertension, sleep disturbances (now claimed as insomnia), and fatigue were dismissed due to improper concurrent elections.

The Board remands the issues on appeal for correction of a pre-decisional duty to assist error, specifically failing to provide notice of the Veteran's right to a hearing.

The Board granted service connection for depression and a total disability rating for individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities, effective August 10, 2022.

The Board granted service connection for an unspecified depressive disorder with insomnia, resolving all reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor.

The Board remands the claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder to address whether the VA examiner adequately addressed the Veteran's reports of alcohol use during active service and the relationship between the current psychosis and an in-service stressor.

The Veteran's GERD to include gastric ulcer is granted a 20 percent rating, while other claims for service connection and an initial compensable rating for sinusitis are denied.

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