The Veteran's mental health condition, characterized as an adjustment disorder with anxious mood and PTSD with memory loss, has not met the criteria for a rating in excess of 70 percent.
The deciding factor: The symptoms described do not meet the criteria for total occupational and social impairment (100% rating) or gross impairment in thought processes or communication (100% rating).
- Claimed conditions
- Adjustment Disorder with anxious mood, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with memory loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 2, 2018
- Citation
- 18147174
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied an effective date prior to July 20, 2007, for the award of a TDIU and SMC(s) due solely to the Veteran's service-connected PTSD with memory loss.
- Granted
The Board granted revision of the February 2007 rating decision, allowing service connection for a psychiatric disorder from July 11, 2006.
- Denied
The Veteran's adjustment disorder with anxious mood has been rated at 10 percent since October 31, 2019. The Board found that the symptoms are mild and transient, decreasing work efficiency only during periods of significant stress or when controlled by medication.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's PTSD with memory loss is rated at 70 percent, and the Board has ordered a remand to reassess his disability due to lack of recent VA treatment records and an updated examination.
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