The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, including persistent depressive disorder, other specific stressor-related disorder and substance abuse in remission, is granted as service connected.
The deciding factor: Service connection for the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder was established based on a direct relationship to his military service without any need for secondary or presumptive service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- persistent depressive disorder, other specific stressor-related disorder, substance abuse in remission
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 9, 2019
- Citation
- 19162007
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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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