Its not very often that when doing homework I read about something that interests me. It is less often that I read about something and then want to talk about it later. AND even less often than that that I read something that makes me laugh. . . that all changed tonight when reading PR (that is Professional Responsibility for you lay persons out there):
"Depression is not the only emotional impairment that seems to be more prevalent among lawyers than among the general population. A 1996 Washington study found indicia of anxiety, social alienation and isolation, obsessive-compulsiveness, paranoid ideation, interpersonal sensitivity, phobic anxiety, and hostility in 'alarming' rates among lawyers - I would argue this applies to law students as well ;-) - rates many times the national norms." I wonder though about all the paranoid, anxious, control freak, crazy people that I know that are not in law school; maybe they missed their true calling?
"Lawyers - again I would argue law students as well - appear to be prodigious drinkers. . . The study of Washington lawyers found that 18% were 'problem drinkers." Now this might help explain why nearly every single picture I have from the last year and half was taken either a) at a bar, b) with a drink in hand, or c) in a pool of vomit. . . just kidding about c!
"The extremely limited information that is available indicates that the physical health of lawyers may not be much better than their emotional health. . ." - Now this i LOVE!!!!- --> "In sum, attorneys seem to be an unhealthy lot!!" <--- that had me rolling on the floor laughing my ass off. . . no really it did, i cant find it!!!!!!
This my friends is what I, and my fellow law students, have to look forward to- if these symptoms have not yet hit us. So for all of you not in law school, consider yourself lucky that you will never become part of "an unhealthy lot."
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