The veteran's service-connected psychiatric disability is productive of no more than mild or transient symptoms which decrease work efficiency and ability to perform occupational tasks only during periods of significant stress. The Board finds that the preponderance of the evidence is against entitlement to a rating in excess of 10 percent for the veteran's psychiatric disability.
The deciding factor: The veteran's psychiatric symptoms more nearly approximates the criteria for his current 10 percent rating, and there is no exceptional or unusual circumstances warranting an extraschedular evaluation.
- Claimed conditions
- obsessive compulsive disorder, adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- September 20, 2002
- Citation
- 0212566
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What this means for you
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