The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric condition, including depressive disorder, anxiety condition, and sleep disturbances.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder is related to service based on the medical opinion provided by a September 2023 VA examiner.
- Claimed conditions
- depressive disorder, anxiety condition, sleep disturbances
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- June 30, 2025
- Citation
- A25056214
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.
- Granted
The Board granted a disability rating of 50 percent for the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, characterized as depressive disorder, effective May 1, 2017.
- Partly granted
The Veteran is granted service connection for migraine headaches secondary to tinnitus, effective April 1, 2021. The claim for an earlier effective date for depressive disorder was denied.
- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
The Board denied service connection for anxiety, depression, joint pains of the hands, a right knee condition, and a left knee condition as there was no evidence to support that these conditions were incurred in or aggravated by active military service.
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