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Texas Lawyer on lawyer suicide

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Texas Lawyer has an article about the 2005 hospital suicide of a "driven" lawyer: Attorney, Interrupted: Seeking Meaning, Recovery for a Legal Life Lost. His estate sued the hospital he was committed to for giving him a razor he used to take his life. Consider the symptoms: "Just leading up to this hospitalization, he'd go through periods of insomnia where he was awake for days, and at work he had difficulty concentrating. He wasn't picking up on what people were saying, he couldn't focus on his cases and he had a sensation of his heart racing and thought maybe he was having some sort of a heart event. He told the ER doctor and the internist that he felt like he was under tremendous pressure in his legal practice. He thought he wasn't pulling it off and had felt like that for several days" before he went to the hospital, Wilson says...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on May 06, 2008 (boomark / email).