The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, including personality disorder, bipolar disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and PTSD, was granted a disability rating of 70 percent from September 18, 2013, to March 29, 2018.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas such as work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking, or mood due to symptoms including suicidal ideation, impaired impulse control, difficulty establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships, and intermittent inability to perform activities of daily living.
- Claimed conditions
- Personality Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- May 12, 2022
- Citation
- 22028141
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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.
What you can do next
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