The Board grants a 70 percent evaluation for service-connected posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to include major depressive disorder.

The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms, including depressed mood; anxiety; suspiciousness; chronic sleep impairment; mild memory loss such as forgetting names, directions, recent events; impairment of short- and long-term memory; difficulty adapting to stressful circumstances including work or work-like setting; inability to establish and maintain effective relationships; flattened affect; impaired abstract thinking; disturbances of motivation and mood; difficulty in establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships; difficulty in understanding complex commands; impaired impulse control; suicidal ideation; obsessional rituals which interfere with routine activities; and spatial disorientation, are contemplated by the criteria for a 70 percent evaluation.

Claimed conditions

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to include major depressive disorder

How they argued it

Direct service connection

Exposure basis

None

Rating assigned

70%

Decision date

November 14, 2025

Citation

A25099231

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