Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2025

The Board denied increased ratings for the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, right ankle disability, and left ankle disability. However, it granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU).

The Board remands the claims for service connection for bladder cancer, an acquired psychiatric disorder, prostate cancer, urinary incontinence, and urinary tract infection due to a need for additional evidence.

The Veteran's claims for service connection for left ear hearing loss and an acquired psychiatric disorder, including PTSD, major depressive disorder, and substance induced mood disorder, are remanded for further development.

The appeal is remanded because the VA did not provide proper notice of a scheduled examination. The case will be reviewed again after the Veteran attends a new examination.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for various disabilities to correct duty to assist errors, specifically related to the Veteran's failure to report for scheduled examinations without good cause.

The Veteran's appeals for service connection for hearing loss, psychiatric disorders, and tinnitus have been withdrawn.

The Board remands the Veteran's claims for a compensable evaluation of right shoulder strain, service connection for left knee and psychiatric disorders due to scheduling errors and lack of examination.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, finding it to be related to the Veteran's active duty service.

The Board denied service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to military sexual trauma, an acquired psychiatric disorder to include adjustment disorder with anxiety, and a left hand disability as the evidence did not support a finding that these conditions began during active service or are otherwise related to an in-service injury.

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and remanded the claims for an acquired psychiatric disability, a sleep disorder, type two diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, vertigo, hypertension, migraine headaches, arthritis of various joints, and kidney disease.

The Board granted an initial rating of 10 percent for GERD and denied a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, left knee disability, low back disability, bilateral plantar fasciitis, right shoulder disability, respiratory disability, sleep apnea, and scars. Service connection was granted for irritable bowel syndrome, acquired psychiatric disorder (PTSD and MDD), headache disability as secondary to PTSD/MDD, and erectile dysfunction as secondary to PTSD/MDD.

The Veteran withdrew the appeal for all service connection claims.

The Board granted service connection for a sleep disorder as it is secondary to the Veteran's service-connected back, right hip, and knee disabilities.

The Board granted an increased initial rating of 70 percent for the acquired psychiatric disorder prior to April 30, 2018, and denied a higher rating. The Veteran's chronic headaches were granted a 30 percent rating prior to September 1, 2016, but not beyond that date.

The Board granted an effective date of May 17, 2022, for service connection of psychiatric condition with a 70 percent rating.

The Board remands the claim for an acquired psychiatric disability to schedule a VA mental health examination.

The Board denied earlier effective dates for the grant of service connection and increased rating, finding that the April 9, 2018 claim date was appropriate.

The Board denied service connection for all the claimed conditions as there was no evidence to support a causal relationship between any of the claimed conditions and the Veteran's active military service.

The Board remands the matter for additional VA examinations to address the medical probability that a mood disorder and/or PTSD are related to the Veteran's combat experience in Afghanistan.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings and service connection, finding no evidence of a current sleep apnea disability, and that his asthma, right lower extremity radiculopathy, and acquired psychiatric disability did not meet the criteria for higher ratings.