PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) decisions — 2022

The Board has denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder other than PTSD, to include dysthymic disorder due to lack of a current disability.

The Board remands the issues of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including bipolar disorder, and entitlement to a TDIU due to the need for additional development.

The Board has granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, sleep apnea, and peripheral neuropathy due to presumed herbicide agent exposure. Service connection was denied for onychomycosis, obesity, and GERD.

The Veteran's service-connected disabilities have rendered him unable to maintain substantially gainful employment, and the Board has granted a TDIU. The claim for an increased rating for PTSD is remanded due to evidence of worsening.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include generalized anxiety disorder, depression, and PTSD.

The Board granted a 30 percent rating for the hiatal hernia as of July 24, 2017. The Veteran's PTSD and other conditions do not preclude him from securing or following a substantially gainful occupation.

The Veteran's PTSD is rated at 100% since September 20, 2017.,Effective September 10, 2018, the Veteran is granted special monthly compensation (SMC) for his service-connected disabilities.,The issue of entitlement to total evaluation based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities (TDIU) has been rendered moot and dismissed.

The Veteran's service-connected PTSD with OCD alone is sufficient to render her unemployable, and the Board has granted a TDIU based on this.

The Veteran's service connection claims for bilateral congenital pes planus, an acquired psychiatric disorder (depression and PTSD), and gout, bilateral feet have all been denied. The Board found that the Veteran's bilateral pes planus is a congenital disease not aggravated by service, his acquired psychiatric disorder does not meet the criteria for service connection as it did not begin during service or be related to an in-service injury, event, or disease, and his gout was not shown to have begun during service.,Service connection on secondary basis has also been denied due to lack of a service-connected condition.