The Veteran's service-connected paranoid schizophrenia already accounts for his current psychiatric symptoms, including PTSD-like symptoms. No other psychiatric disability has been diagnosed.,Nocturnal enuresis was noted during service and continues after separation.
The deciding factor: PTSD is not a separate diagnosis from the service-connected paranoid schizophrenia; therefore, it cannot be separately service connected.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Leg Arthritis, Acquired Psychiatric Disability (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder), Nocturnal Enuresis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 28, 2015
- Citation
- 1541685
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