The Board finds that the evidence does not support a current diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder and thus cannot establish service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The VA examinations did not diagnose the appellant with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and her statements were not supported by objective medical findings or history in the claims file.
- Claimed conditions
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 4, 2006
- Citation
- 0637680
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