Granted
The Board granted service connection for other specified depressive disorder, with anxious distress as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected labral tear with rotator cuff tendonitis with degenerative arthritis shoulder, left.
The deciding factor: The private provider's opinions were found probative and established a nexus between the Veteran's mental health condition and his service-connected physical conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- other specified depressive disorder, with anxious distress
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 10, 2025
- Citation
- A25097372
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