Attorneys are magnets for mental health issues. Compared to the general population, attorneys are especially vulnerable to substance abuse, anxiety, and depression. 

Many attorneys find practicing law soul-crushing because it involves myriad challenges.  

Attorneys frequently have difficulty finding a manageable work-life balance. Legal work is highly stressful in numerous ways:  it’s unpredictable, adversarial, time-consuming, technical, requires constantly dealing with other people’s problems, and often does not generate the sorts of income that lay people generally assume. 

While all these issues are rooted in factual realities, attorneys nevertheless do not need to be miserable as a condition of their careers or need lots of money to be happy. 

Indeed, with the right perspective, it’s still possible to have a happy life while practicing law. This week’s guest, Mark Goldstein, not only overcame his mental health issues and related struggles, he did it while working in the pressure cooker otherwise known as Big Law. He felt alone. He was not.  

In this episode, Mark and Benjy discuss many things mental health in what we believe should be required listening/viewing for all lawyers, especially newer ones. 

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