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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
Apr 5, 20162 min read


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

Survive Law
Oct 29, 20153 min read


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

Survive Law
Oct 27, 20152 min read


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

Survive Law
Apr 2, 20152 min read


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

Survive Law
May 14, 20141 min read


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

Survive Law
May 8, 20143 min read


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

Survive Law
May 7, 20143 min read


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

Survive Law
Apr 4, 20143 min read


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

Survive Law
Oct 1, 20131 min read


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

Survive Law
Aug 28, 20132 min read


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

Survive Law
Feb 12, 20132 min read


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

Survive Law
Jan 25, 20132 min read


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

Survive Law
Nov 1, 20122 min read


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,

Survive Law
Apr 16, 20123 min read


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

Wenee Yap
Feb 7, 20104 min read
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