Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for PTSD with adjustment disorder with anxiety and depressed mood and unspecified depressive disorder due to an inadequate medical opinion and a failure to properly verify a reported in-service stressor.
The deciding factor: The medical opinion was found inadequate because it conflated the Veteran's mental disorders, and there was a failure to properly verify a reported in-service stressor related to the death of his childhood friend.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with adjustment disorder with anxiety and depressed mood and unspecified depressive disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 16, 2025
- Citation
- A25108428
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