The Veteran's anxiety disorder with panic attacks, major depressive disorder, and PTSD has been granted a 70 percent evaluation effective January 18, 2017. The condition was previously rated at 50 percent prior to this date.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence showed significant impairment in work, social, family relations, judgment, thinking, and mood due to symptoms of suicidal ideation, persistent anxiety and depression that affect his ability to function appropriately and effectively, panic attacks multiple times per week, difficulty in adapting to stressful circumstances including work or a work-like setting, dissociative flashbacks that impair orientation to time and place, and an inability to establish and maintain effective relationships.
- Claimed conditions
- Unspecified Anxiety Disorder with Panic Attacks, Major Depressive Disorder, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- January 23, 2019
- Citation
- 19105183
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