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Living a Simpler Life Can Ease Lawyer Depression
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler ~Albert Einstein I believe most of us want, no, crave, a simpler life. Henry Thoreau, seeking to find out what was essential about...
View ArticleLeaving Behind Depression
People with depression tend to hide. They hide their pain. They hide the truth about their suffering because they fear no one will understand. So, they hunker down. They suck it up. They deal with...
View ArticleHow a Depression Coach Can Help Your Law Practice
I know a lot about lawyering and a lot about depression. Because of this, I have a unique perspective, talent and tools to help you solve problems that you must deal with because you’re depressed. Your...
View ArticleWhat Do Lawyers Have To Be Depressed About?
When I talk to non-lawyers about the high rate of lawyer depression, they seem incredulous and sometimes a bit peeved. I was at Starbucks last week. I was drinking my cup of steaming Joe when a...
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The Magicians: How Lawyers With Depression Disappear From Their Lives
One of my favorite things to watch as a child with my dad was The Ed Sullivan Show; an extravaganza of bands, comedians and ventriloquists all hamming it up in front of a live audience and folks across...
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Are Lawyers Worry Warts?
Lawyers don’t have problems, they have catastrophes. Many lawyers feel that the problems that afflict the average person are manageable in comparison to the big decisions with big consequences they...
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In the Beginning: Depression in Law Schools
Everything has a beginning: the Cosmic Bang, the French Revolution and depression in the legal profession. There is little doubt that for many, depression begins in law school. One study of law...
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Is it Lawyer Sadness or Lawyer Depression?
I can spot sadness on a lawyer’s face like a good poker player can read dog-eared cards in a smoky, backroom bar. To others, his or her expression may seem like a seasoned lawyer’s humorless and...
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68 Facts About Clinical Depression
1. To be diagnosed with major depression, you need the following: a depressed mood or a loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities for more than two weeks; mood represents a change from the...
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Why We Can’t Think Our Way Out of Depression
In the book, The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself From Chronic Unhappiness, four experts explain why our usual attempts to “think” our way out of depression or “just snap out of it”...
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The Light that Shines Into the Darkness at Christmas
For those of you struggling with too much stress, anxiety and depression, it’s important to pause and reflect on the beauty of this holy season. To some, this may be irrelevant; to others, ridiculous....
View ArticleTop 10 Books on Stress, Stress-Management and Anxiety
Over the years, I’ve read too many books to count about stress, anxiety and depression. Like most people, I’m always looking for tips and clues about how to handle things better. Some of these books...
View ArticleLawyers With Depression: Crawling Towards Hope
The lack of hope is one of the most powerful features of clinical depression. Why this is so is a complicated question to answer. For lawyers struggling with depression, perhaps even more so. A lot of...
View ArticleHope Has The Final Say: A Lawyer Shares His Pain
I made a new friend this week. A lawyer from down south emailed me. He had found me through my website. He told me about some terrible and unexpected turns his life had taken recently which had...
View Article“I’m Already Getting Help For My Depression: Now What?”
One study found that as many as eighty-percent of all people in this country that suffer from depression don’t get any treatment. Given that depression is the leading cause of disability in the U.S....
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“I Don’t Want To Talk About It”: Guys With Depression
Years ago, 1997 to be exact, I was thinking about writing an article for a lawyer’s magazine about my experiences with depression while practicing law. I had lunch with a good friend of mine, Bob, who...
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Springing Forward
It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! - Mark...
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7 Things Lawyers Can Do to Break the Bonds of Depression
Helplessness and hopelessness. Two pillars of depression. And they’re tough to topple. Helplessness Lawyers, when in the vise-like grip of depression, feel helpless. Despite their best efforts to...
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The Depression Machine: Why Too Much Stress Cranks It Up
I listened to a NPR segment this week about the connection between playing football in the NFL and brain trauma. One retired running back said that each collision he suffered during a game “was like...
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10 Ways For Lawyers to Deal With Their Depression
A lawyer with depression used to call me once a month. He’d sometimes weep as he told me about the myriad of ways that his depression was disrupting his work and personal life. I’d listen each time,...
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