Chapter 1. It's time to change the culture of legal practice / The Honourable George R. Strathy Chapter 2. What is happening to me? / The Honourable Michele Hollins Chapter 3. To tell or not to tell? that is the question: revealing mental health issues at work / Beth Beattie Chapter 4. Reconciling the visible and invisible me: my professional journey to living my authentic self / Carole Dagher Chapter 5. Crisis? What crisis? Encounters with the mental health care system / Thomas Telfer Chapter 6. Life lessons through lawyering and grief / Katherine Cooligan Chapter 7. Please mom. Don't tell anyone / Orlando Da Silva Chapter 8. Practising openness where everyone knows everyone / Michael R. Ferguson Chapter 9. Depression: my journey through darkness / Michael Herman Chapter 10. Un appel d'air: my journey in trauma-informed law so far / Aidan Johnson Chapter 11. Lawyers can be addicts too / Imran Kamal Chapter 12. Stop suffering in silence: ending the stigma of mental illness / Ryan Middleton Chapter 13. Scratching the surface of OCD: the realities of living with skin-picking disorder / Yadesha Satheaswaran Chapter 14. I'm really glad you're still here / Leslie Anne St. Amour Chapter 15. More than a lawyer / Dan Stein Chapter 16. Eating disorders and the legal profession: harsh realities and complexities / Courtney Wilson Chapter 17. Not good enough / Leena Yousefi Chapter 18. Emerging treatments for depression / Brett D.M. Jones, Shayan Imran & M. Ishrat Husain Appendix: Canadian mental health resources for the legal profession.
Summary
"This is a book of essays written by legal professionals (including lawyers, judges and law professors) with lived mental health experience and includes a chapter written by a mental health professional about the diagnosis and treatment of depression, which is the most common mental illness. Contributors are from a wide range of geographical backgrounds including Bay Street and small towns. They come from British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario. The authors and contributors will share their experiences of working in the legal profession while dealing with various types of mental illness including depression, anxiety, bipolarity, obsessive compulsive disorder, addiction, eating disorders and other mental health conditions. Some of the contributors will share their experiences with imposter syndrome and perfectionism both of which are prevalent among legal professionals. The difficult topic of suicidal ideation will be discussed with compassion."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Right not to remain silent. North York, Ontario : LexisNexis, 2024
