The veteran's service-connected PTSD has been rated at 70 percent, as it is manifested by such symptoms as occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas due to suicidal ideation, near-continuous depression affecting the ability to function appropriately and effectively, impaired impulse control with unprovoked irritability, panic attacks, nightmares, difficulty in adapting to stressful circumstances, and an inability to establish effective relationships.
The deciding factor: The veteran's PTSD symptoms, including occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas, such as work, family relations, judgment, thinking, and mood, due to suicidal ideation, near-continuous depression, impaired impulse control, panic attacks, nightmares, difficulty adapting to stressful circumstances, and an inability to establish effective relationships, warranted a 70 percent rating.
- Claimed conditions
- post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- January 5, 2009
- Citation
- 0900220
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
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