Different issues are important to various people. We tend to think that if we believe Issue-X is important, then it is — or should be — important to everyone else. With the shrinking globe resulting from technological connections fostered through social media and other means, people get caught up in shorter and shorter news cycles and attention spans heightened by the newness of the next issue, the most recent fad and the most up-to-date gadget.
In becoming enmeshed in the most recent issue of the day, however, there is always the danger of losing the ability and capacity for objective thinking. To reach a level of “objectivity”, it becomes necessary to place one’s self outside of the self, and to gauge an issue not based upon one’s perspective, but upon a hypothetical third-person viewpoint.
For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who suffer from a medical condition, it is often difficult to view one’s own Federal Disability Retirement application with any sense of objectivity. Overemphasizing the wrong thing often becomes problematic. What to include and — more importantly — what to exclude, cannot often be objectively assessed. Overemphasizing the origin of one’s medical conditions; focusing upon a Supervisor, an incident at work, an alleged “hostile work environment”, etc., may in fact be harmful to your case.
Contact an OPM Disability Attorney who specializes in Federal Disability Retirement Law and make sure that you are not overemphasizing the wrong thing — lest the “wrong thing” come back to defeat the very goal you are intending: An approval from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill, Esquire
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