The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder (anxiety with depression) due to its etiological relationship with the Veteran's military service.
The deciding factor: The private medical opinion and the Veteran's credible lay statements supported a direct causal link between his current anxiety disorder with depression and his in-service experiences.
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety with depression
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- May 1, 2025
- Citation
- A25040308
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,062 · Granted: 34% (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.
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- Granted
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