The Veteran's service-connected schizophrenia, catatonic type, is manifested by total occupational and nearly total social impairment, due to symptoms such as gross impairment in social functioning, intermittent inability to perform activities of daily living (including maintenance of minimal personal hygiene), disorientation to time, serious memory loss, and inability to maintain employment. The Board finds that the service-connected psychiatric disability currently approximates the criteria for a 100 percent rating.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms as documented by medical and lay evidence show total occupational and nearly total social impairment, which approximates the criteria for a 100 percent rating.
- Claimed conditions
- schizophrenia, catatonic type
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- May 13, 2010
- Citation
- 1017820
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