The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's mental health disorders, including adjustment disorder with depressed mood and generalized anxiety disorder, finding that these conditions are at least as likely as not related to his active duty service.
The deciding factor: The June 2018 VA examiner provided a detailed opinion linking the Veteran’s in-service diagnosis of adjustment disorder with depressed mood to his current mental health disorders, resolving all reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- adjustment disorder with depressed mood, generalized anxiety disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 26, 2019
- Citation
- 19122471
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Decisions by this judge: 2,341 · Granted: 33% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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