VA Mental Health Claims Beyond PTSD

Filing a Depression Claim walks you through a VA depression claim in eight steps: Intent to File, diagnosis, the right path (direct, secondary, or aggravation), a concrete account of how it limits work and home, and the C&P exam. Education only.

Filing a Mental Health Claim Beyond PTSD walks you through thirteen steps: the Intent to File, your diagnoses and the one-rating rule, the right service-connection path, a medical opinion, a record of daily impact, the 21-526EZ, and the decision. Education only.

Filing an Anxiety Claim walks you through a VA anxiety claim in eight steps: the Intent to File, diagnosis, the right path (direct, secondary, or aggravation), a concrete account of panic and avoidance, a medical opinion, and the C&P exam. Education only.

Three versions of the same buddy statement: weak, strong and harmful. Includes a two-page fillable handout your witness can complete, sign and hand back, plus a checklist to run before you submit.

Five review lanes, and two of them cannot see new evidence. Sorts supplemental claim, Higher-Level Review and the three Board dockets, with a fillable sorting worksheet and one-year deadline check.

A tie goes to the veteran, and an opinion with no reasoning weighs nothing. Explains benefit of the doubt and includes a page to hand your doctor about nexus opinions.

For a mental health C&P exam. Shows how a good morning can hide a hard year, and gives a two-week symptom log to fill in before the exam.

Why 50, 30 and 20 make 70, not 100. Walks through VA's combined ratings math, the bilateral factor and rounding mistakes, then gives a fillable worksheet to check your own decision letter.

PTSD stressor proof has five routes, and four of them let your own account count. Sorts which route fits you and gives a fillable statement worksheet with crisis support built in.