The Board has granted service connection for anxiety, NOS, finding that the Veteran's current anxiety is related to his active duty. The TDIU issue will be remanded after the anxiety evaluation.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows a link between the Veteran's current anxiety and experiences during active duty, including witnessing bombing in Laos and being detained by enemy forces in Thailand.
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety, NOS
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 10, 2017
- Citation
- 1711374
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 70 percent rating for the Veteran's service-connected acquired psychiatric disorder, diagnosed as anxiety, NOS, PTSD, alcohol use disorder, and cannabis use disorder.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection of an acquired psychiatric disorder, finding that there was no evidence to support a relationship between his current mental health conditions and his military service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the claims for an evaluation in excess of 30 percent disabling from May 27, 2010 and in excess of 50 percent disabling from June 13, 2013 for service-connected depressive disorder, NOS and anxiety, NOS, as well as the claim for total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU). Additional evidentiary development is necessary due to lack of recent VA psychiatric examination.
- Granted
The Board has reopened the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and finds that new evidence received since the last final denial supports a finding of etiological relationship to service. The Veteran's schizophrenia and anxiety, NOS, are found to be related to his military service.
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