Granted
The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder (major depressive disorder with anxious distress) as directly related to events in service that resulted in the grant of service connection for right and left foot residuals of cold injury with osteoarthritis.
The deciding factor: Given the Veteran's reported stressors, the private medical opinion provided a diagnosis of major depressive disorder with anxious distress and linked it to his service-connected foot condition, overriding any previous diagnoses.
- Claimed conditions
- major depressive disorder with anxious distress
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 15, 2025
- Citation
- 25012916
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