The Veteran's service-connected psychiatric condition, including adjustment disorder, panic disorder and cannabis use disorder, is sufficiently severe to prevent him from obtaining and maintaining substantially gainful employment, granting a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) as of July 22, 2021.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's psychiatric condition, including adjustment disorder, PTSD, panic disorder, and cannabis use disorder, significantly impaired his ability to secure or follow substantially gainful employment due to occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas such as work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking and mood.
- Claimed conditions
- adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), panic disorder, cannabis use disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 7, 2025
- Citation
- A25086388
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