Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2025

The Veteran's service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include adjustment disorder, insomnia, anxiety, and depression was granted. However, the claims for PTSD, substance abuse disorder, and bilateral knee condition were denied.

The Board remands the issues of entitlement to a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss, service connection for tinea pedis (Athletes Foot), lumbar spine disability, and an acquired psychiatric disability due to duty to assist errors.

The Board denied a rating in excess of 30 percent prior to June 1, 2023, and a rating in excess of 50 percent from June 1, 2023, for the Veteran's psychiatric disability. The claim for TDIU was remanded.

The Board denied service connection for a bilateral hearing loss disability, psychiatric disorder, lumbar spine disability, hypertension, and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) as the evidence did not support a finding that these conditions were related to the Veteran's military service.

The Board granted a higher initial disability rating of 70 percent for the service-connected acquired psychiatric disorder, effective April 9, 2018.

The Veteran withdrew the appeal for service connection for rosacea, GERD, chronic pain syndrome, and an acquired psychiatric disorder.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and denied service connection for asthma, while dismissing the appeal regarding the reduction in the disability rating from 40 percent to 20 percent for the Veteran's lumbosacral strain effective July 17, 2024.

The Board denied a compensable rating for the Veteran's service-connected bilateral hearing loss and dismissed an appeal seeking a disability rating in excess of 10 percent for his TBI residuals. The claims for service connection for left knee, right knee, acquired psychiatric, and neck disabilities were also denied.

The Board dismissed the veteran's appeals for service connection for bilateral hearing loss, cervical spine disability, mental disorder, right thigh disability, tinnitus, and traumatic brain injury due to untimely notice of disagreement. The claims for a heart disability and low back disability were remanded for further development.

The Veteran's service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, was granted. Other claims were denied or remanded.

The Veteran's service-connected narcolepsy is rated at least 70 percent, combined, and his disability has been shown to render him unable to maintain regular substantially gainful employment. Therefore, a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to the service-connected narcolepsy is granted.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD; hypertension; OSA; and erectile dysfunction, to include as secondary to an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, for further development.

The Board dismissed the appeals for service connection for degenerative arthritis, a left shoulder disability, bilateral lower extremity nerve conditions, an acquired psychiatric disorder, and a neck disability due to non-jurisdictional procedural defects in the Veteran's August 2024 VA Form 10182.

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea and an acquired psychiatric disorder, variously diagnosed as PTSD and major depressive disorder. The claims for chronic diarrhea were remanded.

The Board granted service connection for a respiratory disability (other than sleep apnea) and an acquired psychiatric disability, both related to the appellant's active duty for training.

The reduction in the rating for left knee limitation of extension from 30 percent to 10 percent was not proper, and the 30 percent disability rating is restored. Entitlement to an increased disability rating of 30 percent for left knee instability, effective June 2, 2020, is granted.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for PTSD and a rating in excess of 70 percent for an acquired psychiatric disability other than PTSD due to missing medical records.

The Board granted an initial disability rating of 100 percent for the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, associated with service-connected painful scar, appendectomy residual.

The Board granted service connection for a psychiatric disability but denied service connection for heart disability, type 2 diabetes mellitus, left lower peripheral neuropathy, and right lower peripheral neuropathy.

The Board remands the claim for an SOC addressing service connection for a neuropsychiatric disorder secondary to a back condition.