Ex Member wrote on Mar 16
th, 2017 at 10:01pm:
Was "polygraph" mentioned in your disability paperwork?
Going back through this thread, it is amazing how detailed this abusive practice has been laid out. It is equally astounding that no one (as of yet) has been able to make it stop.
When Arkhangelsk (now "ex member") asked me if "polygraph" was mentioned in my disability paperwork, I said no - but in reality, the approving authority said "see medical evidence". This medical evidence are evaluations from a licensed psychologist and a board certified psychiatrist.
These medical reports state that "patient's severe anxiety disorder was triggered by a required polygraph examination (a requirement for the security level of his employment) and exacerbated by repeated polygraph examinations. The patient was removed from his position and subjected to further repetitions of traumatizing polygraph examinations. The required polygraph examination had become the traumatizing stimulus which, with inescapable repetition, intensified the patient's anxiety disorder."
Also, "At the present, the patient's acute anxiety disorder and depression appear to be a result of his being repeatedly subject to a traumatizing set of stimuli (polygraph examination with verbal interrogation), which he could not refuse or avoid, for fear of losing his employment. With each unavoidable repetition of the polygraph examination his stress responses and depressive affect cascaded to the point in which he cannot effectively function. Patient is acutely anxious, suffers moderate to severe depression and has suffered a acute insult to his self-esteem. The traumatizing events outlined above have caused the patient to suffer many emotional and physical losses."
I applied for Workers' Compensation at the same time that I applied for Disability Retirement - my Workers' Compensation claim was just recently denied because they determined that I was not injured in the performance of duty.
The OWCP also went on to say that this was all just "an administrative function of my employing agency and administrative actions by the agency can only be compensable if you prove that the employing agency erred or abused their discretionary authority beyond your mere perception".
Approved and relevant DOD and DIA regulations stipulate that when individuals are considered medically, psychologically, or emotionally unfit to undergo an examination, they should be exempted from testing. I had provided extensive documentation to them regarding my conditions (which has been acknowledged), yet they made me endure hours and hours of additional interrogations and polygraphs.
Is this my mere perception, or did they in fact commit error and abuse their authority?