70% Rating: Condition causes high to severe deficiencies in most areas of life, suicidal ideation, a continuous state of panic or depression, and an inability to establish and maintain effective relationships.
Prepare for a C&P Exam The VA will likely schedule a C&P exam to assess your hypertension. During the exam, the healthcare provider will take your blood pressure and ask about your symptoms, treatments, and how your hypertension affects your daily life.
The Compensation & Pension (C&P) exam is a medical examination conducted by a VA healthcare provider or a VA-contracted physician. The purpose of this exam is to assess the severity of your anxiety symptoms and how they affect your daily life, work, and social functioning.
The VA recognizes anxiety as a service-connected disability, but it will be up to you to demonstrate both that you suffer from this and that your condition is service-connected. The first part will typically be established by diagnostic records and other information from your treating physician and/or psychiatrist.
Generally, veterans will attend a Compensation & Pension (C&P) examination and the examiner will use a goniometer to measure how far they can bend forward, backward, and side to side. VA will use these range of motion measurements to determine the severity of a veteran's back condition.
To collect for your anxiety, you'll need to prove that your psychological condition has a formal diagnosis and that it is linked to your active service. This must be supported through medical records to demonstrate how severe your condition is, and from there the VA will rate it.
Crying during a C&P exam is not inherently harmful to your claim; in fact, it could be helpful and serve as valuable evidence of the severity of your emotional or psychological condition.
NOTE 2: For VA purposes, the INITIAL diagnosis of hypertension or isolated systolic hypertension must be confirmed by readings taken 2 or more times on at least 3 different days. Blood pressure results may be obtained from existing medical records or through scheduled visits for blood pressure measurements.