The Board granted service connection for PTSD and assigned a 70 percent disability rating, effective from December 1996. The veteran's PTSD is characterized by severe, periodic acute exacerbations with panic disorder, agoraphobia, and depression resulting in unemployability.
The deciding factor: PTSD symptomatology resulted in total impairment as manifested by severe, periodic acute exacerbation with panic disorder, agoraphobia, and depression, resulting in unemployability.
- Claimed conditions
- Additional pathology, right eye, Loss of visual acuity, left eye, Chronic low back pain, Gynecological problems, PTSD, Tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- May 12, 2000
- Citation
- 0012646
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