Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2024

The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient verification of the Veteran's claimed stressors and for further development regarding his acquired psychiatric disorder and heart condition.

The Veteran's appeals for service connection for an acquired psychiatric condition, increased rating for left knee limitation of flexion, and initial compensable disability rating for hypertension are remanded due to the need for additional development of evidence.

The Board has found that the VA did not substantially comply with its prior remand orders regarding scheduling of medical examinations for the Veteran's service connection claims. The appeals are therefore being returned to the AOJ for further development.

The Board has remanded the claims for diabetes mellitus, sinus disability, acquired psychiatric disability (MDD, PTSD), cirrhosis of the liver, facial injury with six teeth missing, right eye injury, tinnitus, bilateral hearing loss, and TBI. The issues are being returned to the RO/AMC for further development.

The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder had its onset in service and the Board has granted service connection for this condition.

The Board has decided to remand the Veteran's claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder due to incomplete service treatment records and the need to obtain additional private treatment records. The Veteran must provide authorization for VA to obtain his service treatment records from his first period of active duty, which is November 1978 to November 1981. He should also be provided with an opportunity to submit or authorize VA to obtain his psychiatric treatment records from Central Florida Behavioral on September 12, 2019.

The Board has determined that there are errors in the decision regarding service connection for various conditions and requires additional medical opinions to address these issues.

Your claim for service connection for schizophrenia has been granted in a previous decision. This case is dismissed as the benefits have already been awarded.

The Veteran's claims for tinnitus, total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU), and service connection for residual(s) of a traumatic brain injury (TBI), headaches, and an acquired psychiatric disability, claimed as PTSD are being remanded due to the need for further examination.

The Veteran's appeal for an increased rating in excess of 10 percent for a left knee condition is denied. The claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability (claimed as alcohol use disorder) is dismissed due to the grant of service connection in a previous decision. Claims for service connection for TBI, right knee condition, left hip condition, left leg paresthesia, and bilateral hearing loss are also denied.

The Board denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including PTSD, as there is no current diagnosis of a psychiatric disorder that conforms to the DSM-5 criteria.

The Board denied the Veteran's request to readjudicate his claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder due to lack of new and relevant evidence, as no such evidence was submitted within the applicable time frame.

The Veteran's claim for an increased initial rating of 30 percent for his acquired psychiatric disorder is granted, effective July 3, 2014. The Board denied the request for an earlier effective date due to lack of evidence prior to this date.

The Veteran's claims for service connection have been remanded due to various pre-decisional duty-to-assist errors, including inadequate medical opinions and examinations.

The Veteran's claims for service connection are remanded due to the need for additional examinations and opinions regarding the onset and relationship of his claimed conditions to service.

The Board has decided to remand the case due to a duty-to-assist error and requires a VA examination to determine if the Veteran's current psychiatric disorder is related to service, specifically an in-service sexual assault.

The Veteran's claims for service connection are being remanded due to errors in obtaining relevant medical records and VA examinations.,Specifically, the Board finds that there may be missing service treatment records from his active duty service in Southwest Asia (SWA) during the Persian Gulf War. Additionally, Reserve and National Guard medical records need to be obtained as they could provide information about the onset of his current conditions.

The appeal seeking service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include PTSD and schizoaffective disorder, stemming from the January 2021 VA Form 10182 is dismissed as there remains no further case or controversy affecting the provision of benefits by the VA.

The Board has decided to remand the case due to an inadequate VA medical opinion regarding the Veteran's acquired psychiatric condition. The claim will be reviewed again with a new examination and opinion.

The Board has determined that the VA examinations and opinions regarding hearing loss, tinnitus, and their relationship to service are inadequate. The claims for these conditions must be remanded to provide a new examination and opinion.