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Profile: Robyn Bradey on Law and Mental Health
Survive Law first encountered social worker and mental health expert, Robyn Bradey, at College of Law's Wellness Forum. We caught up wit
Survive Law
- Oct 29, 2015
- 3 min
5 signs you're headed for burnout
It’s that time of the semester where things are starting to get a bit too much. Exams are only a few weeks away and you’ve still got a whole
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Survive Law
- Oct 26, 2015
- 2 min
Controlling mental monsters
‘It’s too difficult’. ‘I’m not smart enough’. ‘Everybody hates me’. Do any of these thoughts sound familiar? Psychologists call these types
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Survive Law
- Apr 1, 2015
- 2 min
Your mental health matters
I found myself at a party one evening speaking to a friend’s dad who is a barrister. I told him of my interests and explained that someone r
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Survive Law
- May 13, 2014
- 1 min
New Guidelines Focus on Mental Health in the Legal Workplace
In a world-first for the legal industry, the Tristan Jepson Memorial Foundation yesterday unveiled its Psychological Wellbeing: Best Practic
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Survive Law
- May 8, 2014
- 3 min
Law School Blues
My first experience of depression happened at 16. Family and childhood issues from a young age had changed my cheerful, blissfully ignorant
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Survive Law
- May 7, 2014
- 3 min
Mental Health Resources for Law Students
Law as a profession has one of the highest rates of depression and anxiety of any occupation, and it all starts in law school. As law studen
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Survive Law
- Apr 3, 2014
- 3 min
Looking out for the Signs of Depression and Anxiety
We all know that being a law student can be stressful. However, when the demands of law school are combined with the general stresses of dai
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Survive Law
- Oct 1, 2013
- 1 min
Victoria Launches Foundation to Improve Lawyers' Mental Health
A new foundation will be working to improve the mental wellbeing of Victoria’s legal practitioners. Launched last month, the Wellbeing and t
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Survive Law
- Aug 27, 2013
- 2 min
Why Seeing a Counsellor isn’t Scary
Whether you’re struggling with the stresses of law school, suffering from depression or dealing with the vicissitudes of life, it’s importan
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Survive Law
- Feb 12, 2013
- 2 min
Why Yoga is Good for Law Students
Yoga, like the law, has been practiced for thousands of years. You’ve probably heard of it before and imagined super flexible types twisting
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Survive Law
- Jan 24, 2013
- 2 min
Stress Less: Why you should be Relaxing Right Now
Stress is no stranger to a law student, but it’s not our best friend either. That’s why the university break is so important (and so awesome
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Survive Law
- Oct 31, 2012
- 2 min
A Friend in Need: Depression and the Quiet Cry for Help
As exam time looms closer, anxieties in the law school community are running high. It doesn’t help that one of the common law student charac
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Survive Law
- Apr 16, 2012
- 3 min
Mental Health and Students: A Working Solution?
The Sydney University Law Society recently hosted a panel-based discussion forum on the topic of how mental health issues amongst students,
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Wenee Yap
- Feb 6, 2010
- 4 min
Depression in Law Students
“I had this plan on how I should live my life. How everything worked. In work, I was so organised, I never fucked up. My therapist couldn’t
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