The Veteran's claims for increased ratings for adjustment disorder and residual scar were denied as there was no evidence of occupational or social impairment with deficiencies in most areas, such as work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking, or mood.
The deciding factor: The Veteran did not meet the criteria for a 70 percent rating under the applicable diagnostic codes due to lack of significant occupational and social impairment.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic Adjustment Disorder with Mixed Anxiety and Depressed Mood, Residual Scar from a Laceration of the Scrotum (Residual Scar)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 4, 2015
- Citation
- 1546748
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Veteran's chronic adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood is rated at 50 percent, which does not meet the criteria for a higher rating of 70 percent or above.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected psychiatric disability (chronic adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood) is granted an initial rating of 50 percent, but no higher.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for PTSD as the Veteran was not diagnosed with PTSD based on DSM-5 criteria. The appeal for an increased rating for Chronic Adjustment Disorder with Mixed Anxiety and Depressed Mood is dismissed as moot due to a prior restoration of the evaluation.
- Granted
The Board has granted an effective date of January 9, 2023 for the award of a 70 percent disability rating for PTSD. The earliest claim was filed on that date.
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