Resources from the Mental Health & Wellness Chair
Physical and Mental Health
- TimelyCare (free, on-demand physical and mental health services)
- Habif Group Therapy
- Relationship & Sexual Violence Prevention Center
- Free BearFit Cycling Classes
- Free Plan B, Menstrual Cups, Pregnancy Tests & More in Zenker Wellness Suite
Reproductive Health
- BareMail (free safer-sex supplies to your door)
- Plan B is Free on WUSTL Student Health Insurance!
- Free Pregnancy Tests – Go to Habif first floor restroom.
- Plan C Pills (information about self-medicated abortion)
- Find a Trusted Abortion Provider
ABA Lawyer Assistance Programs (CoLAP)
Alcoholism, drug addiction, and mental health problems are afflictions that affect a great number of professionals including lawyers and judges. To provide a model for assisting lawyers, whose practices had been impaired by addictions, the ABA created the Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs (CoLAP) to provide support to attorneys fighting addictions as well as stress, depression, and other mental health problems. The Commission’s primary goal is to advance the legal community’s knowledge of impairments facing lawyers and to provide a response to those issues.
- ABA Law Assistance Programs
- Highlights Newsletter
- CoLAP Law Student List Serve – The ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs maintains a confidential listserv for recovering law students. For information on joining this group, contact Nicki Irish.
Blogs
Resources
- LawLifeline
- A Law Student’s Guide to Being a Happy, Healthy and Honorable Lawyer
- Resources from Lawyers with Depression
- Chicago Drug Abuse Treatment Programs
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- National Institute on Mental Health
- Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance
- Quit Smoking Community
- National Suicide Prevention Hotline (800.784.2433)
Eating Disorders
Articles
- Law Student Division’s Essential Mental Health Articles (Compilation from Before the Bar Blog and Student Lawyer)
- The Careerist: Lawyer Depression Begins Early (by Dan Bowling, The Careerist, The American Lawyer, March 4, 2014)
- Howie Mandel: We Don’t Take Care of Our Mental Health (By Elizabeth Landau, CNN Health, Feb 1 2014)
- Why Are Lawyers Killing Themselves? (by Rosa Flores and Rose Marie Arce, CNN, Monday, January 20, 2014)
- Speaking Up: Helping Law Students Break Through the Silence of Depression By Hollee Schwartz Temple, ABA Journal, February 2013
- The Exercise Prescription for Depression, By Erin Berger
- Lawyers of Sound Mind by Melody Moezzi, August 5, 2013, The New York Times-The Opinion Page
- Gambling Addiction and Problem Gambling: Signs, Symptoms, and Treatment (HelpGuide.org)
- Gamblers Anonymous
- Hypersexuality: Symptoms of Sexual Addiction (By Robert Weiss, LCSW, CSAT-S,PsychCentral)
- Hypersexual Disorder Warning Signs(American Psychiatric Association, April 28, 2012)
- Sex Addicts Anonymous-An Invitation to Recovery (Sex Addits Anonymous)
- Internet Addiction Guide (By John M. Grohol, Psy.D., PsychCentral, January 5, 2012)
- College of Law Recognised for Combating Depression (Lawyers Weekly, October 11, 2012)
- Seeking Help For Substance Use Before the Bar Becomes a Bar (by Dean David Jaffe, American University-Washington College of Law)
- Addicted Lawyers Start as Addicted Law Students (by Meghan Vivo, Elements Behavioral Health)
- Character and Fitness: How to Handle Substance Abuse or Mental Illness (Student Lawyer magazine, May 2011, Volume 39 / #9, ABA Law Student Division)