The petition to reopen the previously denied claim of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder is granted. Service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including PTSD due to military sexual trauma, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, mood disorder, an eating disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder, is denied.
The deciding factor: The VA examinations found that the Veteran's psychiatric disorders were not caused or aggravated during service, to include the instances of verbal harassment in service.
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, mood disorder, eating disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 23, 2019
- Citation
- 19140099
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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.
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