The Board granted service connection for a psychiatric disability, diagnosed as Other Specified Depressive Disorder, finding it to be secondary to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows that the Veteran's psychiatric disability is causally related to his service-connected disabilities, and there is no medical opinion to the contrary.
- Claimed conditions
- Other Specified Depressive Disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- April 16, 2025
- Citation
- A25035339
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Decisions by this judge: 1,812 · Granted: 30% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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
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