The Board has granted service connection for other specified trauma- and stressor-related disorder, finding that the Veteran's symptoms are related to a personal assault (military sexual trauma) stressor event in service. The diagnosis of PTSD is not supported by the evidence.
The deciding factor: The November 2019 VA examiner found credible corroborating evidence of military sexual trauma (MST), which may have contributed to the development of other specified trauma- and stressor-related disorder, but was not exclusively the cause.
- Claimed conditions
- other specified trauma- and stressor-related disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 20, 2019
- Citation
- 19195598
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