The Board has granted a 50 percent disability rating for the veteran's anxiety disorder with strong hysterical features, effective from April 7, 1988.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity due to symptoms such as disturbances of motivation and mood; flattened affect; panic attacks more than once a week; difficulty in understanding complex commands; impairment of short and long-term memory; impaired judgment; impaired abstract thinking; and difficulty in establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships.
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety disorder with hysterical features
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- November 7, 2006
- Citation
- 0634366
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