The Board denied service connection for a psychiatric disorder in December 1989, finding that the veteran had a borderline personality disorder during and shortly after service. The decision is being denied as there was no clear and unmistakable error.
The deciding factor: The evidence before the Board did not contain an appropriate diagnosis of a psychotic disorder within the presumptive period, leading to denial of service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- psychosis, borderline personality disorder, bipolar affective disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 19, 2001
- Citation
- 0126525
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What this means for you
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Granted
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- Dismissed
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for a psychiatric disorder, to include bipolar disorder, due to pre-decisional errors in considering all of the Veteran's psychiatric diagnoses and failing to obtain an adequate medical opinion.
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