Denied
The Board denied service connection for a personality disorder with severe alcohol use disorder. The Veteran's personality disorder is considered a congenital defect and not subject to service connection.
The deciding factor: Personality disorders are considered defects and not diseases or injuries for VA disability compensation purposes, thus they cannot be service connected.
- Claimed conditions
- personality disorder, severe alcohol use disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 3, 2025
- Citation
- A25000643
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