Last Updated on September 7, 2022 by FERS Disability Attorney
Bipolar Disorder is classically characterized by extreme and unpredictable mood swings between depression and manic episodes, and such alternating swings of highs and lows impact upon one’s judgment, perception, orientation, and ability to maintain a rational perspective.
This psychiatric medical condition, with its symptoms of lethargy, racing thoughts, delusional thought processes leading to long periods of excitability, alternating with unrelenting and intractable depressive moods, impacts many different kinds of duties and daily living activities. It can impact physically-intensive job duties, and not just cognitive-intensive core elements of one’s job.
For Federal employees and USPS workers who are contemplating filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits under the FERS system, it is important to understand the mental or nervous medical condition; whether a medication regimen returns one to a sufficient level of functional sufficiency such that one can continue to perform all of the basic elements of one’s job; and, if not, then how best to prepare, formulate, construct and complete a FERS Disability Retirement application.
What is often known as OPM Medical Disability Retirement is a benefit which must be fought for, in order to secure one’s future ability to receive a basic income — perhaps to reach that level of functionality that one may return to the labor force despite the disabling medical condition.
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill
FERS Disability Lawyer
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