The Veteran's PTSD is currently rated as 30 percent disabling. The Board has determined that the manifestations of his PTSD more closely approximate total occupational and social impairment, warranting a 100 percent disability rating.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows that the Veteran's PTSD symptoms have resulted in total occupational and social impairment due to gross impairment in thought processes or communication; persistent delusions or hallucinations; depression; irritability; avoidance; isolation; panic attacks; frequent nightmares and flashbacks of traumatic experiences.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Paranoid Schizophrenia, Major Depression
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- August 11, 2010
- Citation
- 1029952
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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 Veteran's PTSD was granted a 70 percent rating prior to March 7, 2022, while other claims were denied.
- Partly granted
The Veteran was granted an initial rating of 70 percent for service-connected paranoid schizophrenia and a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) effective July 1, 2020.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD and GAD, as well as tinnitus.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for an earlier effective date for service connection of an acquired psychiatric disability, to include PTSD, as it needs a medical opinion addressing the nature and etiology of the condition prior to October 16, 2023.
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