Routes To Depression

Thomas Moore's bestselling books have also provided an adventuresome map of everyday spirituality. Moore was a monk in a Catholic religious order for 12 years and then practiced psychotherapy. He is a Renaissance man whose works are filled with illustrative material from mythology, psychology, philosophy and contemporary spirituality. He has taken the pulse of the times and come to the conclusion that "loss of soul" is the cause of the restlessness, addiction, insecurity and frustration of so many men and women.
 His latest book is A Life At Work.

It is common to think of depression as one, large, overwhelming fog that descends on you from nowhere. I prefer to imagine many kinds of depression, taking several different shapes, and coming from specific sources. There are the blues, as we know—indigo moods. There are also black depressions, yellow depressions and sometimes white-outs.

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High Achievers Suffer From Depression

Rachel Long, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., Esq., has a Masters degree in Social Work from New York University and has been practicing as a therapist for over 12 years(www.rlongcounseling.com). In addition to her private practice as a therapist she also teaches Sociology part-time at Bergen Community College and graduated from Rutgers University Law School in 2002. Ms. Long maintains a small legal practice in Bergen County New Jersey as well (www.RachelLongLaw.com).

If one were to examine the characteristics of various professionals, you would likely notice a pattern wherein each profession tended to attract people with similar characteristics and the legal profession is no different. It would seem even someone who wasn’t a lawyer might notice that the legal profession tends to attract people who are achievement oriented and driven towards success. While these characteristics can often be viewed as positive, the individual who needs to fulfill the drive for achievement and success can also suffer from difficulties such as depression when they feel they can’t meet their own expectations.                                         
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"Get A Life!": Searching For Fulfillment In The Practice Of Law

Carl Horn III has served as a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Western District of North Carolina since 1993. A former Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney (1987 - 1993), Judge Horn spent the first eleven years after law school graduation in private practice and as counsel to two national non-profit organizations. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including the Fourth Circuit Criminal Handbook, now in its 10th edition, and is a frequent speaker at CLE and other bar-related functions. His latest book is LawyerLife: Balancing Life and a Career in Law.

As many visiting this website know, the study and public discussion of lawyers suffering from depression is a relatively recent phenomenon. I do not recall hearing a word about it – or, for that matter, about related topics such as work/life balance or alcohol and substance abuse – during my law school years (1973-76). In fact, it was well into the 1980s before troubling trends in the legal profession generally, or the decline in quality of the professional lives of individual practitioners, began to be addressed in any significant way.                                         
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