The Board has granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder manifested by anxiety and psychosis, to include as being secondary to an in-service harassment.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner concluded that the Veteran's other unspecified trauma-and-stressor-related disorder due to sexual harassment was incurred during her periods of active duty service, ACDUTRA or INACDUTRA, and is related to her current psychiatric disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- other specified trauma-and-stressor-related disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 18, 2017
- Citation
- 1717224
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What this means for you
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