The Veteran's claim to reopen service connection for personality disorder is granted. The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient evidence regarding the nature and etiology of his psychiatric disability, including a personality disorder.
The deciding factor: Insufficient evidence was provided to determine whether any current psychiatric condition, including a personality disorder, is related to service or preexisted service.
- Claimed conditions
- Personality Disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 9, 2019
- Citation
- 19177803
What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for a personality disorder and remanded claims for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, and obstructive sleep apnea.
- Denied
The Board denied a disability rating in excess of 50 percent and 70 percent for an acquired psychiatric disability, including PTSD, depressive disorder, trauma and stressor related disorder, personality disorder, alcohol use disorder, and cannabis use disorder.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the appeal for the AOJ to correct several pre-decisional duty-to-assist errors, including obtaining private psychiatric treatment records and SSA disability/SSI benefit records.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, finding that the most persuasive evidence established a personality disorder and substance use disorders, which do not constitute disabilities for VA compensation purposes.
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