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Dealing with Stress According to Marge Simpson
Learning how to deal with stress is tricky - everyone has different coping mechanisms and different methods that they’ve come to develop aft
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Survive Law
- Apr 5, 2016
- 2 min
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
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Survive Law
- Dec 21, 2015
- 2 min
How to keep things in perspective
During law school, it is very easy to feel overwhelmed when trying to learn about complex areas of law, perfecting clerkship applications, p
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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
- Sep 29, 2015
- 3 min
Coping with mid-sem mayhem
Mid-semester break, a magical week of no classes. A time when you can catch up on missed lectures, sleep in, and finish off the...
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Survive Law
- Jul 17, 2015
- 2 min
Eat, Sleep, Law, Repeat: Caring for Yourself in Law School
I once heard that law school was “a marathon, not a sprint”, but now that I'm in my fourth year, I’ve found that studying law is more li
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Survive Law
- Apr 22, 2015
- 3 min
How to get your Motivation Back
You were so keen at the start of semester, so motivated. Somewhere along the line that fizzled out, and you could really use some motivation
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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
- Sep 15, 2014
- 2 min
Four Reasons to Put Down your Textbook and Start Exercising
“Exercise? Who has time for that?” With a long list of reading materials to get through, part-time jobs, volunteer work, and job application
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Survive Law
- Aug 25, 2014
- 1 min
Meet the Juris Dogtor
He’s not quite a legal beagle, but a poodle by the name of Riley is one of the newest faces at Melbourne Law School. Nicknamed “The Juris Do
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Survive Law
- Jun 30, 2014
- 2 min
Dealing with Exam Failure
You emerge from the exam with a bad feeling in the pit of your stomach. The possibility of failure suddenly feels very real and imminent. Bu
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Survive Law
- Jun 23, 2014
- 2 min
Why you Need to Take a Holiday
Exam period is upon us, which means that you probably can’t remember the last time you’ve watched a movie without feeling guilty, or the las
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Survive Law
- May 29, 2014
- 3 min
Dealing with Penultimate Year Panic
Since your first year of law school most adults/lawyers/distant family members have probably been asking you “what do you want to do with yo
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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 12, 2014
- 2 min
Why you should Work and Study Less
As a Type A perfectionist law student, I’m never convinced that my best is good enough. I’m of the mindset that working and studying late, s
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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
- Mar 16, 2014
- 4 min
Five Tips for Keeping Sane during another Year of Law School
A new year of law school means great things: crisp new stationery, new people with fresh brains to pick, and new 9am lectures to not attend.
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Survive Law
- Dec 12, 2013
- 2 min
Australian Law Students Overwhelmed by Workload
A new study has found that nearly half of Australian law students feel overwhelmed by their law school workload most or all of the time....
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