The Veteran's unspecified anxiety disorder has caused occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity, and his service-connected disabilities have rendered him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation.
The deciding factor: The evidence of record supports the finding that the Veteran experiences symptoms such as flattened affect; circumstantial, circumlocutory, or stereotyped speech; panic attacks more than once a week; difficulty in understanding complex commands; impairment of short- and long-term memory (e.g., retention of only highly learned material, forgetting to complete tasks); impaired judgment; impaired abstract thinking; disturbances of motivation and mood; and difficulty in establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships.
- Claimed conditions
- unspecified anxiety disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- February 10, 2025
- Citation
- A25012182
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