The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for a rating in excess of 30 percent for service-connected adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, as the evidence did not support occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity.

The deciding factor: The evidence did not show symptoms such as flattened affect; circumstantial, circumlocutory, or stereotyped speech; panic attacks more than once a week; difficulty in understanding complex commands; impairment of short- and long-term memory (e.g., retention of only highly learned material, forgetting to complete tasks); impaired judgment, impaired abstract thinking and, difficulty in establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships.

Claimed conditions

Adjustment Disorder with Mixed Anxiety and Depressed Mood

How they argued it

Direct service connection

Exposure basis

None

Rating assigned

None in this decision

Decision date

November 10, 2025

Citation

A25097557

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