federal workers with sleeping and fatigue problems

OPM Disability Retirement: The Netherworld between Sleep and Wakefulness

Posted onOctober 2, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

There is that moment of haziness, where sleep has not yet overtaken and consciousness has not yet been fully lost, where the philosophical abyss of Kierkegaard’s Either/Or stands in relation to knowledge, truth, insight and puzzlement, and where questions abound concerning the relationship between words and the objective reality of constellations clashing amidst bursting stars and black holes. Sleep is a realm sought after; restorative sleep, a state of being which, without explanation or cause, we accept as a necessity of life’s conundrums. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement Lawyer: The Recurrent Nightmare

Posted onMarch 31, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Perhaps it is explicit, of images which repetitively beat the drum of constancy; or, sometimes, despite every effort, one cannot recall the harrowing particulars of a nighttime of eternity filled with dissipation of fear and loathing. Restorative sleep is lacking; whether from pain, nightmares or paralyzing panic attacks; and the medical designation of insomnia, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, or psychiatric conditions of Generalized Anxiety Disorder, intrusive nightmares; […] Read More …

OPM Disability Benefits: Fatigue of Life

Posted onFebruary 18, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

There is clearly a distinction to be made between the general fatigue which life blows upon us all; like the child left to play outside in days of yore, and comes back with the grime of healthy dirtiness, the imperceptible layers of life’s hardships cover everyone, like the light dusting of snow overnight revealed in the morning dawn of a winter’s day. But the profound fatigue which overtakes one from the daily battle against an incapacitating medical condition, is a difference which cannot always be adequately described, if ever. […] Read More …

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Twilight’s Landing

Posted onFebruary 6, 2015October 4, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Sleep is often the category of escape; restorative sleep, a palliative prescription for a medical condition. Upon closing one’s eyelids, the images which pervade from the day’s stimuli slowly recede as the dark chasm of one’s own consciousness begins to fade, and sleep begins to overtake, leading us into that shadow of twilight’s landing. It is when chronic pain, discomfort, and the gnawing neurons which fail to relax but continue to send signals of dismay and distress, that the world of wakefulness and the dawn of sleep fail to switch off; or the continuing anxiety, depression or panic attacks control and jolt one into the awareness of darkness. […] Read More …

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: Restorative Measures

Posted onMay 16, 2014April 23, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

Sleep obviously has an evolutionary purpose. Anxiety, stress, negative thoughts and perspectives; aggressive behavior, combativeness (otherwise known to spouses as “being grumpy”); inability to maintain one’s focus, concentration, attention to detail; […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: Restorative Sleep & a New Day

Posted onMarch 4, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney4 Comments

For whatever evolutionary reasons, the necessity of sleep is apparent to anyone who lacks it. On just a basic level of understanding, one assumes that the extent and level of daily activities results in the corresponding necessity of one’s sleep pattern; but one sees […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: When Once Sleep is No Longer Restorative

Posted onNovember 5, 2013AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Sleep is more than the cessation of activities; it is a state of slumber and dormancy, when one can effectively escape from the daily stimuli of variegated bombardments; as an escape, it allows for the mind to suspend the frantic functioning of […] Read More …

federal workers with sleeping and fatigue problems

Federal Disability Retirement: Restorative Sleep & a New Day

OPM Disability Retirement: When Once Sleep is No Longer Restorative

OPM Disability Retirement: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Related Conditions

Federal Disability Retirement Benefits for Federal & Postal Employees: Psychiatric v. Physical Disabilities

OPM Disability Retirement: The Case of Fibromyalgia