Depression decisions — 2025

The Board remands the claim for an initial disability rating in excess of 30 percent for major depressive disorder to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error.

The Board granted service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and an anxiety condition based on the evidence establishing that these conditions are etiologically related to the Veteran's service.

The Board granted an effective date of January 28, 2018, for the grant of service connection and a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to the Veteran's mental health disorder.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, for accrued benefits purposes.

The Board granted service connection for somatic symptom disorder with predominant pain, major depressive disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities.

The Board granted service connection for psychiatric disability and headaches, but denied service connection for left knee, right knee, low back, and tinnitus disabilities. The TDIU claim was remanded.

The Board denied the Veteran's request for an earlier effective date than December 1, 2022, for a 100 percent disability rating for PTSD with major depressive disorder and alcohol use disorder.

The Board granted an effective date of December 11, 2021, for the grant of service connection for major depressive disorder (MDD) with anxious distress with insomnia disorder.

The Board denied an initial evaluation in excess of 30 percent for unspecified depressive disorder with unspecified insomnia disorder, and remanded the issues of entitlement to an initial evaluation in excess of 20 percent for diabetes mellitus type II and an initial compensable evaluation for hypertension.

The Board denied increased ratings for the Veteran's service-connected conditions and denied an earlier effective date for the award of service connection.

The Board granted service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death, finding that his service-connected depressive disorder contributed substantially or materially to his death.

The Board denied the Veteran's request for an earlier effective date than June 21, 2023, for the assignment of a 70 percent evaluation for traumatic brain injury with unspecified neurocognitive disorder and unspecified depressive disorder.

The Board granted service connection for PTSD, including symptoms of anxiety and depression, related to the Veteran's combat service in Afghanistan.

The Board granted service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder, persistent depressive disorder with persistent major depressive episode, thoracolumbar spine disability, pelvic pain, to include pain during sexual intercourse, left lower extremity peripheral nerve disability, and right lower extremity peripheral nerve disability. The claims for a left knee disability, right knee disability, right hip arthritis or another right hip disability, high cholesterol, bowel incontinence, 'nerve damage secondary to bowel incontinence', and pain while defecating were denied. Service connection for diabetes mellitus type 2 was also denied.

The Veteran withdrew his appeal for an increased rating for major depressive disorder, and the Board has no jurisdiction to review this issue.

The Board denied a compensable rating for bilateral inguinal hernia and residual scar, but remanded claims for service connection for low back disability, other specified trauma- and stressor-related disorder, left knee disability, right hip disability, and left hip disability.

The Veteran withdrew the appeal for service connection for adjustment disorder, unspecified (previously claimed as depression), to include as secondary to service-connected tinnitus.

The Board denied earlier effective dates for the award of service connection and higher initial ratings for various disabilities.

The veteran withdrew the appeal for an increased rating for unspecified depressive disorder with anxious distress and alcohol use disorder before it was established.

The Board granted service connection for endocrine issues, eczema, and unspecified depressive disorder. The claims for migraines, back pain, an endocrine disability, and a sickle-cell disorder were remanded.