What’s Thwarting Your Quest for Workmen’s Compensation in North Carolina? [Not What You Think!]
You’ve been struggling to collect workmen’s compensation benefits in North Carolina for a while. You feel agitated and practically ready to scream in frustration.
Why you are having such a hard time?
You may not have asked yourself this question before. Or maybe you have asked it, and you answered it by claiming to be helpless. For instance:
• “My employer just turned on me for no reason, and he’s not supporting my claim”;
• “The North Carolina workers’ compensation bureaucracy is too complicated, and I get a headache every time I try to understand even my basic rights”;
• “The insurance company is screwing me over”;
• “The accident made me too sick/depressed to take effective action.”
There is a strong likelihood that you have been struck by unfortunate circumstances. Perhaps you have had the displeasure of discovering that your boss is not the kind of boss that thought he or she was. Perhaps a seemingly trustworthy insurer has turned out to be anything but. And those things may all be true. Nevertheless, in your rush to figure your situation out, you may have misdiagnosed your problem – or at least failed to address certain key aspects of your frustrations.
What seems to be holding you back may be a phantom constraint.
So what’s the real problem? How can you find out?
Here’s a really neat, fun, and insightful exercise. Pick one aspect of your workmen’s compensation problem. For instance, maybe you’re feeling pain in your wrist after a typing injury. Ask yourself why it happened. Your answer might be ‘because I worked myself to the bone and never really took breaks.’ Now, ask yourself what’s the root cause of that problem — why did you work so hard? You might come back with an answer along the lines of ‘I wanted to do a really good job to impress my superior and earn more money.’
Then drill down yet again! Ask yourself why it was so important to show off to your superiors and make money. You might then realize that you did so because you felt a strong sense of duty to provide for your family. Why? Because your family is incredibly important to you.
Your passion and desire to support your family sparked your “overwork,” which sparked your injury.
With that insight in your pocket, you can think about how you might be able to meet your needs to support your family without struggling so much or putting yourself at risk.
It’s very difficult for us to understand the subtle, often subconscious forces that motivate us to take actions (or fail to take actions). It can be tremendously useful to work with an experienced person – or a team of good people – to make progress.
Get in touch with the team at the Law Offices of Michael DeMayo for assistance with your claim now.
