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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