The Board has granted service connection for Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Unspecified Depressive Disorder, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Fibromyalgia as related to service in the Persian Gulf.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms of anxiety, depression, fatigue, and joint pain were found to be related to his deployment in the Gulf War, meeting the criteria for service connection under new and material evidence.
- Claimed conditions
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Unspecified Depressive Disorder, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 19, 2021
- Citation
- 21003181
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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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