The Board has determined that the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder, depressive disorder, mood disorder, and PTSD, are related to his military service.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the Veteran's current mental health conditions were not caused by or a result of his service-connected back and right knee disorders, but it would be speculative to opine whether they were aggravated by his military service due to lack of documented events affecting him in service.
- Claimed conditions
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Depressive Disorder, Mood Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 2, 2012
- Citation
- 1211910
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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
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