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Welcome to hadit. In my humble opinion (IMHO) I think any service connected condition that causes depression that can be related/connected by a medical opinion can also be awarded service connection. The key would be to get a physician or a psychiatrist to link the disorders. So I would say it is very possible. Yes, mental health problems can be associated to Traumatic Brain Injury

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I'm not sure if this is the answer your looking for.

A psychologist or neuro-psychologist or a psychiatrist can diagnose TBI.

A neurologist can also diagnose TBI.

On the other side, many mental dissorders such a depression, anxiaty, and some personality dissorders can be diagnosed as caused by(or secondary to) TBI.

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I'm not sure if this is the answer your looking for.

A psychologist or neuro-psychologist or a psychiatrist can diagnose TBI.

A neurologist can also diagnose TBI.

On the other side, many mental dissorders such a depression, anxiaty, and some personality dissorders can be diagnosed as caused by(or secondary to) TBI.

yes that helped very much psychiatrist got me diagnose with it, I didn`t know if they could do it or a brain specialist had to do it

thx very much BigAl

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I'm not sure if this is the answer your looking for.

A psychologist or neuro-psychologist or a psychiatrist can diagnose TBI.

A neurologist can also diagnose TBI.

On the other side, many mental dissorders such a depression, anxiaty, and some personality dissorders can be diagnosed as caused by(or secondary to) TBI.

yeah they got me diagnose with tbi, neuro psych got me diagnose with major dressive dissorder vs. dysthymic dissorder thx for the info very helpfull and thx again

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BigAl,

You can get a copy of your VA medical records, and service medical records too, so you can see what has been diagnosed, and said.

Have you seen a neurologist yet?

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yes that helped very much psychiatrist got me diagnose with it, I didn`t know if they could do it or a brain specialist had to do it

thx very much BigAl

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BigAl,

You can get a copy of your VA medical records, and service medical records too, so you can see what has been diagnosed, and said.

Have you seen a neurologist yet?

BoonDoc

yes I have my medical records and stuff and seen a nuero they done battery test took 2 to 3 times to finish it everytime 3 to 4 hrs will post but she diagnose with major depressive dissorder vs. dysthymic dissorder mental health diagnose with tbi

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BigAl,

You can get a copy of your VA medical records, and service medical records too, so you can see what has been diagnosed, and said.

Have you seen a neurologist yet?

BoonDoc

va MH diagnose me with the tbi and that I didn`t need the screening that I was positive for it due to deployment in Iraq but yet it don`t state if it is severe or mild and also has me diagnose at 50% for ptsd neuro phsyc from all the testing i`m showing sign of helplesness,anxiety,cognitive impairments,homocidal,suicidial,and the list goes on and I wasn`t aware of them switching numbers on me doing the number recall but yet she said it was very hard to diagnose me and diagnose me major depressive dissorder vs. dysthymic dissorder

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Okay, what was the reason for the denial?

What was the date of the denial?

Have you appealed the decision?

haven`t appealed it yet. Their saying I show in service record for mental and they need and expert medical opinion

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You should get your appeal in.

Your tbi was in service? Was it before you began having mental issues? The tbi can cause these types of problems like major depressve disorder. It caused my MDD and anxiaty. It can also aggravate the conditions if they were already present.

In other words, even if you did have a condition before the tbi, the tbi can still be service connected and rated. Do you have service records of the tbi?

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