The Veteran's service connection claim for Other Specified Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorder is granted, while his claim for Unspecified Personality Disorder with antisocial and borderline features is denied due to it being a congenital defect.
The deciding factor: The VA medical opinion provided competent medical evidence of a nexus between the MST during service and the current psychiatric diagnosis of Other Specified Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- Other Specified Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorder, Unspecified Personality Disorder with antisocial and borderline features
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- January 9, 2026
- Citation
- A26002259
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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