The Veteran's mood disorder with depressive features is productive of occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas, warranting a 70 percent evaluation.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms include depressed mood, suspiciousness, panic attacks, chronic sleep impairment, memory loss, flattened affect, impaired judgment and abstract thinking, disturbances of motivation and mood, difficulty in establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships, difficulty adapting to stressful circumstances, suicidal ideation, and impaired impulse control.
- Claimed conditions
- mood disorder with depressive features
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- April 25, 2019
- Citation
- 19132532
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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