The Veteran's service-connected acquired psychiatric disorder, including unspecified trauma and stressor-related disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and cannabis use disorder, prevents him from securing or maintaining substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected acquired psychiatric disorder is rated at 70% for the entire appeal period, preventing him from securing and following substantially gainful employment due to his symptoms of irritability, impaired impulse control, memory impairment, difficulty adapting to stressful circumstances, and difficulty establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships.
- Claimed conditions
- unspecified trauma and stressor-related disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, cannabis use disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- September 13, 2023
- Citation
- 23050625
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for unspecified trauma and stressor-related disorder and unspecified depressive disorder with an effective date of September 23, 2011. The decision is based on newly received service medical records that were not available when the original claim was decided in January 2013.
- Granted
The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, unspecified trauma and stressor-related disorder, is granted as service connected due to in-service exposure.
- Denied
The Veteran's appeal for an increased rating and earlier effective dates was denied. The Veteran is currently rated at 70 percent for his service-connected unspecified trauma and stressor-related disorder (acquired psychiatric disorder) with no higher ratings granted.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal request was not timely filed, and the Board dismissed the appeal due to lack of good cause.
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