The veteran's service-connected disabilities, including PTSD with headaches and cold injury residuals of the feet, are considered to be so severe as to preclude all forms of substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The veteran's moderate to moderately severe PTSD is manifested by daily debilitating headaches, anxiety, insomnia or nightmares, anger and irritability, intrusive thoughts, startle response, social isolation, and Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scores ranging from 40 to 50. His service-connected disabilities result in unemployability due to their severity.
- Claimed conditions
- posttraumatic stress disorder, cold injury residuals of the left foot, cold injury residuals of the right foot, peptic ulcer disease, scar residuals to the left side of the face
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- August 15, 2002
- Citation
- 0209915
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What this means for you
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