The Board has granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder (schizophrenia) due to continuity of symptoms since service.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in equipoise as to whether the Veteran's struggles which led to discharge from active duty were related to intellectual functioning, prodromal symptoms of schizophrenia, substance abuse, or other unknown factors. The Board affords the benefit of the doubt to the Veteran and finds that symptoms of a current psychiatric disorder were continuous since service.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disorder (schizophrenia)
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 5, 2021
- Citation
- 21067860
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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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