In preparing, formulating and filing a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS, the concern often revolves around the compounding effect of a medical condition, when a Federal or Postal employee continues to persevere in performing duties which clearly exacerbate and exponentially magnify the originating medical condition and the manifesting symptomatologies.
Whether as secondary depressive symptoms, or as increasing anxiety, uncontrollable panic attacks; chest pains; radiculopathy; sedation which occurs from medication or lack of sleep over weeks and weeks, resulting in profound and overwhelming fatigue; the problems of unmitigated and unaccommodated medical conditions become worse, and begin to attain a “hump-back” effect, where the Federal or Postal worker attempts to increase the productivity output by working that much harder, ignoring the originating medical condition yet, concurrently, becoming more and more suspicious that the Supervisor, the coworker, the “others” in the Agency, are recognizing and quietly commenting upon the deteriorating work ethic of the Federal or Postal employee.
Most medical conditions, precisely because of the inherent nature of the medical condition itself, cannot be accommodated. What medical conditions need most are the self-evident and obvious, but which society lacks the patience for: treatment, time for recuperation, and space away from the daily stresses of the multi-tasking workplace.
Disability Retirement criteria under FERS & CSRS requires that a medical condition last for a minimum of 12 months. Such a requirement is rarely difficult to meet. For, in this world of stress-work-productivity-result-orientation, one rarely has time to pause for a medical condition. Such lack of pause, however, only increases the likelihood of the compounding effect of a once-singular medical condition, which over a short period of time, progressively deteriorates into a “hump-back” of multiple conditions, exacerbated by stress, magnified by an environment which has little or no time for such blips as the sorrow of the human condition.
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill, Esquire
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