For the period prior to September 9, 2008, the Veteran's GAD has been manifested by severely impaired ability to establish and maintain effective or favorable relationships and severely impaired ability to obtain and retain employment, as well as occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas due to impaired judgment and mood, suicidal ideation, intermittent irrelevant speech, near-continuous depression, impaired impulse control, and difficulty in adapting to stressful circumstances. The Veteran is assigned a 70 percent disability rating for GAD prior to September 9, 2008.,For the period since September 9, 2008, the Veteran's GAD has been manifested by total occupational and social impairment. The Veteran is assigned a 100 percent disability rating for GAD since September 9, 2008.
The deciding factor: The VA examinations conducted prior to November 7, 1996, established that the Veteran's GAD resulted in severe impairment of social and industrial functioning.
- Claimed conditions
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- August 26, 2010
- Citation
- 1032150
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