Depression Board decisions

The veteran withdrew the appeals for service connection and other related claims, resulting in their dismissal.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for residuals of prostate cancer, arthrosclerosis (claimed as a heart condition), allergic rhinitis, depressive disorder, and complex partial seizures evolving to generalized seizure due to incomplete service treatment records and the need for additional evidence regarding in-service herbicide exposure.

The Veteran's depressive disorder was granted a 70 percent disability rating, and TDIU was granted effective September 29, 2023. The earlier effective date claim for service connection was denied.

The Board denied an increased rating for the Veteran's traumatic brain injury and depressive disorder, finding that the current ratings of 10 percent and 50 percent were appropriate.

The Board granted service connection for right and left lower extremity radiculopathy with an effective date of December 29, 2013, a 70 percent disability rating for major depressive disorder, and a total disability rating based on individual unemployability from April 17, 2019.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include depressive disorder and PTSD, based on the Veteran's credible in-service stressor account.

The appeal of the issue of entitlement to service-connection for persistent depressive disorder with anxious distress (dysthymic disorder) is dismissed.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include schizophrenia, persistent depressive disorder, MDD, and unspecified anxiety.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, depressive disorder, and anxiety disorder.

The Board remands the veteran's claims for service connection for various disabilities, including chloracne, diabetes, peripheral neuropathy, major depressive disorder, hypertension, erectile dysfunction, and a kidney disability, to obtain further development in accordance with the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxins Act of 2022 (PACT Act).

The Veteran's PTSD with unspecified depressive disorder was granted a 70 percent rating, but no higher.

The Board denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including PTSD, GAD, MDD, unspecified trauma and stressor related disorder, and neurocognitive disorder secondary to alcohol abuse, due to a lack of credible evidence supporting the claimed in-service incident.

All appeals listed were dismissed due to the Veteran's death.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including anxiety disorder, depression, a psychotic disorder, and PTSD.

The Board granted a 70 percent disability rating for the period on appeal prior to July 22, 2020, for major depressive disorder, PTSD and panic disorder without agoraphobia (psychiatric disability) but denied a rating in excess of 70 percent for psychiatric disability at any time during the appeal period.

The appeals for service connection for anxiety and depression have been withdrawn by the veteran.

The Board denied higher initial ratings for the thoracolumbar spine disability and right ankle disability, granted service connection for an acquired mental disorder as due to a service-connected disability, and dismissed the claim for obstructive sleep apnea.

The Board granted service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death, finding an approximate balance of positive and negative evidence that a service-connected disability contributed substantially to the overdose.

The Board granted earlier effective dates for service connection and SMC, but denied an earlier effective date for DEA benefits.

The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, including depression, unspecified, a generalized anxiety disorder, and primary insomnia, due to duty-to-assist errors.