The Board granted a 100 percent rating for PTSD effective February 21, 2023, based on the Veteran's total occupational and social impairment due to his symptoms.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed that the Veteran had exhibited a total occupational and social impairment with symptoms such as depressed mood, anxiety, suspiciousness, panic attacks, chronic sleep impairment, mild memory loss, flattened affect, disturbances of motivation and mood, difficulty in establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships, difficulty adapting to stressful circumstances including work or a work like setting, inability to establish and maintain effective relationships, impaired impulse control such as unprovoked irritability with periods of violence, and an intermittent inability to perform activities of daily living, including maintenance of minimal personal hygiene.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with anxiety and insomnia to include opioid-related use disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- June 3, 2025
- Citation
- A25049126
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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