The Board granted service connection for PTSD with major depressive disorder, anxious distress and alcohol use disorder and herpes simplex, type II, based on the Veteran's honorable active-duty service.
The deciding factor: The evidence persuasively shows that both conditions arose from the Veteran's period of honorable active-duty service.
- Claimed conditions
- PTSD with major depressive disorder, anxious distress and alcohol use disorder, Herpes simplex, type II
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- April 10, 2025
- Citation
- A25033344
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.
- Denied
The Board denied an effective date prior to January 31, 2019, for service connection of PTSD with major depressive disorder.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an effective date of November 19, 2020, for the assignment of a TDIU and DEA under 38 U.S.C. Chapter 35 but denied an earlier effective date for a 70 percent rating for PTSD with major depressive disorder.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 70 percent disability rating for PTSD with major depressive disorder, denied service connection for left ear and right ear hearing loss, and remanded claims for a neck condition and right upper extremity radiculopathy.
- Granted
The Board granted an earlier effective date of January 11, 2018, for the grant of service connection for PTSD with major depressive disorder.
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