The veteran's service-connected schizophrenia with severe anxiety is shown to be productive of a level of social and industrial inadaptability that more nearly approximates a disability picture consistent with that of a demonstrable inability to obtain or retain employment, warranting a 100 percent rating.
The deciding factor: The veteran exhibited severe impairment of his social, labor and interpersonal capacities due to his schizophrenia, resulting in a GAF scale score of 50, indicating serious symptoms affecting work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking, or mood.
- Claimed conditions
- schizophrenia, severe anxiety
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 17, 2002
- Citation
- 0214525
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