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 Editor's Note: Please check out this great article concerning Canadian lawyer Keith Anderson and his overcoming of depression.
WHY I CREATED THIS SITE
 Depression is often a very isolating experience - - even when the depressed person has a supportive and loving group of people to rely on.
In my own life, I often found relief in reading books about depression, spirituality or health and trying to relate the wisdom in those books to my own life as a lawyer.
When I searched on-line for materials to read that would support me in my attempt to cope with depression and my law practice, what I found was sometimes helpful, but in the end, not sufficient.
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LWD IN THE NEWS
LWD in Plaintiff Magazine
This story from Plaintiff Magazine discusses the effects of depression on the legal world profile lawyerswithdepression.com and creator Dan Lukasik.
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The Law's Occupational Hazard
Lawyerswithdepression.com founder Dan Lukasik authored this article for thecompletelawyer.com entitled Depression Is The Law's Occupational Hazard.
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Seminar Receives Praise
The successful Erie County Bar Association seminar, Effective Lawyering: Dealing with the Stresses and Strains of Today's Law Practice, spearheaded by lawyerswithdepression.com creator Dan Lukasik is profiled in this piece from The Daily Record.
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Struggling Against Sadness
This article from the American Bar Association profiles lawyerswithdepression.com, highlighting the sites many features and accompanying efforts to reach out to the legal community. Read the story
Law School Honors Grads
From the Buffalo Law Journal, the state University of New York at Buffalo Law School honors five grads and the newly appointed Dean with the Distinguished Alumni award including lawyerswithdepression.com creator Dan Lukasik. Read the story
When Things Become Too Much
This article from the Niagara Gazette takes a look at the tendency for overachievers to go into the field of law and the inherent danger of handling stress by burying themselves in work.
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Erasing The Stigma
This story from the New York Law Journal explores the stigma surrounding attorney depression and the role that lawyerswithdepression.com plays in combating that stigma. Read the story
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FEATURED ARTICLES
 The Truth About Depression
Dr. Charles Whitfield is a renowned author, lecturer and therapist. His book, The Truth About Depression: Choices for Healing, takes the position that the principal cause of clinical depression is childhood trauma and not a biochemical imbalance.
The truth about depression is that it is not as advertised. It is not what some special interest groups tell us. It is not the single, simple disorder that drug companies and some mental health groups may claim. It is not simply a genetically transmitted disorder of brain chemistry. It does not reliably respond to antidepressant drugs. And these drugs are not the only available recovery aids. These special interest groups may have misled us.
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 Depressed Lawyers: A Little Help For My Friends
Bruce E. Levine, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and has been in private practice in Cincinnati, Ohio since 1985. Dr. Levine’s most recent book is Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy. Dr. Levine lectures, provides workshops and is a regular contributor to numerous magazines. www.brucelevine.net.
Among the lawyers whom I have known, it occurs to me that the only ones I’ve liked have had bouts of depression. So when Dan Lukasik, lawyer and depression sufferer, invited me to write a piece for his lawyerswithdepression.com, I gladly agreed.
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 Depression Could Never Happen To Me—I’m a Lawyer!
John Starzynski is a volunteer and Executive Director of the Ontario Lawyer’s Assistance Program (OLAP). He received his Bachelor Laws Degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1974 and was called to the Bar in 1976. John practiced in the area of matrimonial law and litigation in his home town of Oshawa, Ontario. In 1990, he stopped practicing due to his continuing and daily disabling experience with bi–polar illness (manic-depression). Since then, John has had and continues to have an intensive treatment for this disease. He became involved with OLAP in 1995 as a peer support volunteer to provide assistance to other lawyers who are going through the trials of stress, burnout, addictions, depression and mental illness.
It didn’t happen all at once. It sort of snuck up on me because of my belief, and the belief of those in the legal profession, that I could not have a problem because I solved them.
Depression and recovery have become a way of life for me. So it might help you to hear what and how this all started.
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