The veteran's service-connected generalized anxiety disorder is currently rated at 50 percent, but the Board has granted a higher rating of 70 percent based on more severe symptoms.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence shows that the veteran's generalized anxiety disorder now approximates occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas, such as work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking or mood, due to his symptoms including suicidal ideation, obsessional rituals, and near continuous panic or depression affecting his ability to function effectively.
- Claimed conditions
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- November 20, 2006
- Citation
- 0635889
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder, and somatic symptom disorder, as well as presumptive service connection for basal cell carcinoma under the PACT Act. Service connection was denied for chronic fatigue syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, right restless leg syndrome, left restless leg syndrome, an increased rating for psychiatric disorder, bilateral hearing loss, a left forehead surgical scar, and allergic rhinitis.
- Granted
The Veteran was granted a disability rating of 70 percent for posttraumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder, effective October 24, 2017. The Board also granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability due to the need for a more comprehensive medical examination and opinion.
- Granted
The Board granted a staged disability rating of 70 percent for the service-connected generalized anxiety disorder from January 8, 2024, resolving reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran.
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