Category Archives: Depression

"Like asking a blind person to describe a rose"

November 9, 2006 – 5:35 pm

I have been talking to a friend of mine about how to keep up your motivation as a solicitor. My friend said he talked to one of the partners at his work about his lack of motivation. The partner was nonplussed, and suggested that my friend should “snap out of it”. My friend concluded that [...]

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It’s not just lawyers

September 13, 2006 – 11:11 pm

I was horrified to read the following story in The Age today in regard to conditions for young doctors.
I wonder if there’s a medical equivalent of Legal Eagle or Shop Steward sitting typing an outraged blog about the terrible conditions of trainee doctors? (that is, if they are not too darn exhausted after working 16 [...]

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More on lawyers and depression

September 7, 2006 – 11:39 am

For some reason, although I’ve been flat out with work and a cranky teething bubba, this week has been a bumper week for blogging - perhaps the busier I am, the more my mind fizzes with blogging topics? Or perhaps it’s just procrastination so I can hide from the real work I have to do [...]

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Lawyers and Depression

September 4, 2006 – 4:42 am

In the July 2006 edition of the LIJ, there was an article at page 82 entitled “Be happy”, which deals with why so many lawyers are unhappy. The author, Simone Jacobson, cites a book called Lawyer Know Thyself by Susan Daicoff which identifies three problems facing lawyers:

Rambo-style litigation and unethical behaviour;
Low public opinion of lawyers; [...]

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