The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disabilities, including PTSD, mood disorder, anxiety disorder, and chronic depression, are granted. Service connection is denied for OCD, dissociative identity disorder, bipolar disorder, bilateral hearing loss, and obstructive sleep apnea.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established based on direct evidence of a current disability related to service, without the need for additional presumptions or theories of connection.
- Claimed conditions
- {"condition_name":"Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)","diagnosis_date":null,"current_diagnosis":true}, {"condition_name":"Mood Disorder","diagnosis_date":null,"current_diagnosis":true}, {"condition_name":"Anxiety Disorder","diagnosis_date":null,"current_diagnosis":true}, {"condition_name":"Chronic Depression","diagnosis_date":null,"current_diagnosis":true}, {"condition_name":"Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)","diagnosis_date":null,"current_diagnosis":false}, {"condition_name":"Dissociative Identity Disorder","diagnosis_date":null,"current_diagnosis":false}, {"condition_name":"Bipolar Disorder","diagnosis_date":null,"current_diagnosis":false}, {"condition_name":"Degenerative Changes of the Lumbosacral Spine","diagnosis_date":"2009-04-01","current_diagnosis":true}, {"condition_name":"Bilateral Hearing Loss","diagnosis_date":null,"current_diagnosis":false}, {"condition_name":"Bilateral Carpal Tunnel Syndrome","diagnosis_date":"2007-09-01","current_diagnosis":true}
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 26, 2019
- Citation
- 19132933
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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