Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2025

The Board granted service connection for hypertension, left foot disability (plantar fasciitis), right hip disability (traumatic arthritis), and psychiatric disability (unspecified anxiety disorder).

The Board granted service connection for sinusitis, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and an acquired psychiatric disorder but denied service connection for a neck condition, left arm radiculopathy, low back condition, left leg radiculopathy, and a right knee condition.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection and initial rating, as well as a TDIU, due to insufficient evidence linking his claimed conditions to active service or establishing current diagnoses.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for bilateral knee injury, head injury, photophobia, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and schizophrenia to allow VA to obtain potentially relevant Social Security Administration records.

The Board granted a 70 percent rating for an acquired psychiatric disorder but dismissed the appeal for a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss.

The Board denied service connection for multiple disorders, including shoulder, spine, knee, and extremity conditions, as the evidence did not support a finding that these conditions were incurred in or related to the Veteran's military service.

The Board granted an earlier effective date of August 23, 2021, for the award of service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder.

The Board denied service connection for a lumbar spine disability, posttraumatic stress disorder, and an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include depression.

The Board granted an effective date of June 23, 2023, for the award of a 50 percent rating for a psychiatric disorder but denied earlier effective dates for service connection and special monthly compensation.

The Board remands the appeal for further development of evidence, including scheduling VA examinations to determine the current nature and severity of the Veteran's right elbow disability, the etiology of his skin condition, and the nature and etiology of any current psychiatric disability.

The Board granted service connection for a scar on the right ring finger and denied service connection for refractive errors of the eyes. Other claims were remanded for further development.

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

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities of degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine, left shoulder degenerative arthritis, and right shoulder strain.

The Board granted service connection for bilateral tinnitus, low back pain, right knee strain, and left shoulder impingement syndrome. The claim for an increased rating for migraine headaches was denied as well as the initial disability rating for the acquired psychiatric disorder.

The Board denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, headache disorder, lumbar spine condition, and respiratory condition as there is no probative evidence that the Veteran has a current disability for any of these conditions.

The appeal for service connection for a psychiatric disability, including PTSD, was dismissed due to the Veteran not properly perfecting an appeal under the Appeals Modernization Act.

The Board denied service connection for various disabilities, including headaches, hip and knee problems, sleep apnea, foot conditions, and psychiatric disorders, as there was no evidence of in-service incurrence or aggravation and the Veteran's current symptoms were not shown to be related to his military service.

The Board granted a 10 percent disability rating for the residuals of a 5th digit fracture of the right hand and denied a compensable disability rating for bilateral hearing loss. The other claims for service connection were remanded.

The veteran has withdrawn the appeal for service connection for sleep apnea, an acquired psychiatric disability, and a bilateral stress fracture disability, as well as entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU).

The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss and remanded the claims for an acquired psychiatric disorder and hypertension for further development.