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Fearing Requital, Many Law Students Don’t Report Mental Health Substance Abuse Problems

Many law students are not seeking help for depression and drug or alcohol dependence because they’re afraid it will hurt their chances of getting admitted to the bar or landing a legal job, a new study shows. So reports Bloomberg BNA.

More than a quarter of the 3,300 law students surveyed had received at least one diagnosis of “depression, anxiety, eating disorders, psychosis, personality disorder, and/or substance use disorder,” the study found. Yet only 4% reported ever having relied on a health professional to deal with alcohol or drug abuse, and only half of the 42% percent who said they thought they needed support for emotional or mental problems in the past year got counseling for it.

Since more than 60% said they failed to get help for their problems because they feared it would negatively affect their careers, the report suggested that law schools need to do a better job of teaching students that getting help will not hurt their career prospects.

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