Depression Board decisions

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.

The Board dismissed the appeals for initial disability ratings and effective dates related to various conditions, including lumbar spine, sciatic and femoral radiculopathy, and major depressive disorder. The decision also granted a 60 percent rating for left knee arthroplasty from January 1, 2016.

The Board denied service connection for depression and an initial compensable rating for bulimia due to the lack of evidence supporting a current diagnosis of depression independent of other service-connected conditions, and the absence of incapacitating episodes related to bulimia.

The Board granted service connection for cervical spine disability, GERD with hiatal hernia, and sleep apnea while denying service connection for hypothyroidism, TMJ, stress headaches, and other conditions. The effective dates for the grants of service connection were not earlier than February 27, 2021.

The Board denied the Veteran's claims for a disability rating in excess of 40 percent for lumbosacral strain and entitlement to a TDIU prior to June 24, 2021.

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and persistent depressive disorder, but denied service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, insomnia sleep condition, traumatic brain injury, hypermetropia bilateral eyes injury, heart disorder, left knee disorder, right knee disorder, left ankle disorder, right ankle disorder, left hip disorder, back disorder, cervical spine disorder, and foot disorder.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, for further development of evidence.