Anxiety — all decisions

The Board restored the 30 percent disability rating for GAD with alcohol use disorder prior to May 8, 2024, and denied a higher rating in excess of 30 percent or 50 percent thereafter.

The Board granted service connection for generalized anxiety disorder, insomnia disorder, gastroesophageal reflux disease, bilateral plantar fasciitis, and migraine headaches based on their onset during active duty for training (ACTDUTRA).

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an increased rating in excess of 70 percent for posttraumatic stress disorder, cannabis use disorder, alcohol use disorder, and adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood to include insomnia symptoms (PTSD).

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, diagnosed as generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder.

The Board denied service connection for PTSD and an evaluation higher than 30 percent for the Veteran's service-connected GAD with insomnia due to a lack of competent evidence supporting a diagnosis of PTSD during the review period and insufficient symptoms to warrant a higher rating.

The Board denied service connection for anxiety, fatigue, neurobehavioral effects (including mood), unspecified depressive disorder, hypertension, migraines, and degenerative disc disease. The Veteran's left ear hearing loss was also denied a compensable rating.

The Board denied the Veteran's claims for earlier effective dates for increased ratings and special benefits, finding no evidence of worsening conditions within a year prior to June 9, 2023.

The appeal regarding service connection for unspecified anxiety disorder is dismissed as the disability was granted, and there remains no justiciable case or controversy with respect to this claim.

The veteran's appeal was dismissed as the Board Appeal request was not timely filed.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder due to military sexual trauma, and human immunodeficiency virus as there are pre-decisional duty to assist errors that need correction.

The Board denied service connection for various conditions, including an acquired psychiatric disorder, sleep disorders, right foot disability, migraine, erectile dysfunction, and right elbow, shoulder, and knee disabilities.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, including unspecified depression and anxiety, as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected tinnitus and bilateral hearing loss.

The Board remands the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, depression, anxiety, and other specified trauma and stressor related disorder, due to an inadequate medical opinion.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, variously diagnosed as unspecified depressive disorder, adjustment disorder, anxiety not otherwise specified, and insomnia, due to the Veteran's in-service stressor involving an explosion during his deployment to Afghanistan.

The Board granted service connection for anxiety disorder, finding that the Veteran's current diagnosis of anxiety had its onset during a period of active duty for training (ACDUTRA) and has continued to manifest post-service.

The Board denied a disability rating in excess of 50 percent for the Veteran's service-connected acquired psychiatric disability but granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU).

The Board remands the claims for service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and an anxiety condition due to a duty to assist error in obtaining adequate medical examinations.

The veteran withdrew his appeal for service connection for generalized anxiety disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and insomnia.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and alcohol use disorder, finding that the appellant's mental health symptoms began during active service and continued since.

The Board remands the service connection claim for cause of death to obtain an addendum opinion addressing whether the Veteran's generalized anxiety disorder, including side effects from medications used to treat it, caused or contributed substantially to his intracranial hemorrhage and subsequent death.