Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2025

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) as there is not a reasonable possibility that his service-connected disabilities render him unemployable.

The Board denied service connection for hyperlipidemia and remanded the claims for gastroesophageal reflux disease, esophagitis, and a psychiatric disorder due to their potential secondary relationship with the Veteran's service-connected diabetes mellitus.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for various disabilities, including a right knee disability and related conditions, to ensure proper development of the record.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and bilateral hearing loss, but denied service connection for traumatic brain injury (TBI), diabetes mellitus type II, lumbar condition, peripheral neuropathy of the right and left lower extremities.

The Board denied the Veteran's request to readjudicate his claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, as new and relevant evidence was not received.

The Board dismissed the claim for continuation of a 50 percent rating for service-connected bilateral pes planus with plantar fasciitis and denied an initial rating in excess of 50 percent for the period prior to June 30, 2021 for an acquired psychiatric disorder.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability and a rating of 70 percent, effective June 25, 2015.

The appeal for service connection for an acquired psychiatric condition is dismissed as the benefit sought was fully granted in a June 2024 rating decision.

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus, but remanded the claims for migraines, chronic otitis externa, and an acquired psychiatric disorder.

The Board granted service connection for a left elbow disability and a right shoulder disability, but denied a compensable rating for allergic rhinitis and an increased rating for an acquired psychiatric disorder.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, erectile dysfunction, a right ankle condition, a back condition, and a right knee condition to allow the AOJ to correct duty to assist errors.

The Board granted an earlier effective date of May 8, 2017 for the award of service connection for acquired psychiatric disability, to include PTSD.

The Veteran's claims for service connection for hemorrhoids and herpes were granted with an effective date of May 17, 2007. Claims for earlier effective dates for other conditions were denied.

The Board granted an effective date of April 29, 2019, for the award of service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and February 25, 2021, for the left arm gunshot wound.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, resolving reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor.

The claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder is remanded due to the need for a new medical opinion.

The veteran withdrew his appeal, and the Board dismissed all claims for service connection and initial rating.

The Board denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, due to a lack of credible supporting evidence that the claimed in-service stressor occurred and no verified stressor was found.

The Board denied service connection for erosion of teeth, a disability evaluation in excess of 30 percent for GERD, and service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability and lymphocytic colitis. The claims were remanded for further development.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for higher initial ratings for right knee limitation of flexion and back disability, service connection for diabetes mellitus, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), hypertension, and periodontal disease. However, it granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD and anxiety.