The Veteran's PTSD is currently evaluated as 30 percent disabling due to symptoms such as anxiety, intrusive thoughts, sleep impairment, hypervigilance, and exaggerated startle response. The VA examiner found no more than occupational and social impairment with occasional decreases in work efficiency and intermittent periods of inability to perform occupational tasks.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's PTSD is currently manifested by symptoms that do not meet the criteria for a higher rating as his symptoms are primarily anxiety, intrusive thoughts, sleep impairment, hypervigilance, and exaggerated startle response, which demonstrate no more than occupational and social impairment with occasional decreases in work efficiency and intermittent periods of inability to perform occupational tasks.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- October 20, 2015
- Citation
- 1544707
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