The Board dismissed the appeal for a rating in excess of 30 percent for chronic adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood due to withdrawal by the Veteran's representative.
The deciding factor: The appeal was withdrawn prior to the promulgation of a decision.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 24, 2026
- Citation
- A26016601
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for chronic adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected psychomotor epilepsy with brain mass, effective October 25, 2021.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the appeal for further development, including obtaining additional evidence and scheduling a VA psychiatric examination to assess the appellant's mental state leading up to his discharge from service.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for chronic adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood but denied service connection for vertigo as secondary to tinnitus.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 10 percent rating for allergic rhinitis and a 20 percent rating for right sciatic radiculopathy, but denied higher ratings for left sciatic radiculopathy, chronic adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), service connection for chronic sinusitis, pain of the right knee, bilateral hearing loss, and chronic fatigue syndrome.
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