Depression decisions — 2025

The Board granted service connection for major depressive disorder secondary to the Veteran's service-connected erectile dysfunction and denied service connection for PTSD, as well as various claims related to peripheral neuropathy of the upper and lower extremities.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for various conditions, including cerebrovascular disease, depression, hepatitis C, irregular heartbeat, and a heart disorder, to obtain additional medical evidence regarding their etiology.

The Board granted service connection for sinusitis and irritable bowel syndrome, but denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss. Other claims were either denied or remanded.

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and headaches, and assigned a 10% rating for right armpit dermatitis. IBS was denied, while claims for other conditions were either denied or remanded.

The Board granted service connection for cervical and lumbar conditions, chronic migraines, MDD, and readjudicated the claims for hives, lung scarring, elbow, and ankle conditions as secondary to Valley Fever.

The Board granted a 100 percent disability rating for depressive disorder and a 60 percent disability rating for focal mononeuropathy with winged scapula, long thoracic nerve, while also granting service connection for left ear hearing loss.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, depression and anxiety, as the evidence supports a causal relationship between these conditions and the Veteran's active service.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to her service-connected depressive disorder, finding that she is capable of obtaining and maintaining gainful employment.

The Board granted service connection for ADHD, bipolar disorder, and depression based on the presumption of soundness upon entry into service.

The Board granted earlier effective dates for service connection, TDIU, Dependents' Educational Assistance eligibility, and special monthly compensation based on statutory housebound criteria.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, currently diagnosed as persistent depressive disorder, but denied service connection for residuals of head injury other than vertigo and headaches, to include traumatic brain injury (TBI), and for vertigo. The left wrist disability claim was remanded.

The Board denied the veteran's requests for extensions of time to file appeals regarding rating decisions that denied service connection for various conditions, and dismissed the attempted appeals.

The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disability, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), persistent depressive disorder, and agoraphobia, is rated at 70 percent from August 18, 2008, but no higher.

The Board granted a 30 percent rating for the Veteran's right shoulder pain with supraspinatus tendon tear and denied higher ratings for bladder incontinence, while remanding claims for service connection for hearing loss, meralgia paresthesia, PTSD, GAD, depressive disorder, and somatic symptom disorder.

The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for a disability rating in excess of 70 percent for PTSD and generalized anxiety disorder with major depressive disorder, finding that his symptoms more closely approximated those associated with a 70 percent rating.

The Board granted an effective date of July 3, 2019 for the grant of service connection for urolithiasis/kidney stones and denied earlier effective dates for other claims.

The Board dismissed the veteran's appeals for service connection for various disabilities, including a lumbar spine disability, PTSD, left shoulder disability, hearing loss, depression, insomnia, jaw pain disability, and anxiety. The only issue remanded was entitlement to service connection for right leg nerve damage.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include MDD, as new and relevant evidence has been received since the prior denial in 2017.

The Board remands the claims for service connection due to a duty to assist error regarding notice of the right to a pre-decisional hearing.

The Board granted service connection for persistent depressive disorder with anxiety as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected tinnitus.