The Board granted a 50 percent rating for the Veteran's mental health disability, to include adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depression.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms of depressed mood, anxiety, panic attacks that occur weekly or less often, disturbances of motivation and mood, difficulty in establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships, and impaired impulse control warranted a 50 percent rating under the General Rating Formula for Mental Disorders.
- Claimed conditions
- adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depression
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- January 3, 2024
- Citation
- 24000475
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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an increased rating of 50 percent for the period from March 28, 2020 to January 19, 2021 and denied a rating in excess of 50 percent from January 19, 2021 to April 12, 2022. The Board also denied a rating in excess of 70 percent from April 13, 2022.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include bipolar disorder and adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depression, with cannabis use disorder.
- Dismissed
The appeal contesting the severance of service connection for adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depression was dismissed, and the claim for service connection for tinnitus was denied.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for an increased evaluation of adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depression, finding that her symptoms did not more closely approximate occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas.
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