The Board denied service connection for a psychiatric disability, to include adjustment disorder with anxiety and depressed mood, as there was no evidence of a current diagnosis.
The deciding factor: The most probative evidence failed to demonstrate the Veteran currently suffers from an additional psychiatric disability beyond her insomnia associated with migraine headaches.
- Claimed conditions
- adjustment disorder with anxiety and depressed mood
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 18, 2025
- Citation
- A25035846
What this means for you
A denial is a starting point, not the end of the road. You can see why this claim fell short — and, if you are still inside the one-year window, the appeal lanes that may remain open to you.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 70 percent disability rating for the Veteran's adjustment disorder with anxiety and depressed mood, but denied an initial compensable rating for allergic rhinitis. The claim for service connection for a liver condition was remanded.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's motion to revise the March 2011 rating decision that granted service connection for adjustment disorder with anxiety and depressed mood, on the grounds of clear and unmistakable error (CUE).
- Partly granted
The Board granted an initial 30 percent rating for chronic frontal/ethmoid sinusitis, resolving reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran. The other claims were denied.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for an earlier effective date due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error in failing to provide notice of the right to a hearing.
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