when the postal worker cannot longer pretend everything is fine with him

OPM Disability Retirement: Accommodations and the Elegance of the Hedgehog

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A French film (The Hedgehog) loosely following upon the novel (The Elegance of the Hedgehog), focuses upon the hidden life of an unnoticed individual, and through her providing a platform of unraveling the fears, aspirations, class differences and how we treat […] Read More …

Pretending to Be Healthy and Fit in the Federal or USPS Workplace

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Pretending is a game considered healthy for children, in almost all societies. It allows for the expansion of “creative energies” inherent in the growing psyche, and to allow for children to take on roles, encounter other situations of fictionalized circumstances, and confront fears […] Read More …

Federal Employee Medical Retirement: Apparent Normalcy

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One can venture and maneuver through this world with a semblance of normalcy, where from all outside perspectives, a person is untroubled and unencumbered. There are multiple complexities inherent in such a perspective, of course: what constitutes “normal”; […] Read More …