State Bar of Wisconsin

Managing your stress

Economic turmoil can have negative effects on both physical and mental health. Yet these personal tolls are often ignored or overlooked.

We’ve gathered a wide array of resources and techniques you can use to help you cope with the uncertainty, stress, and emotional turmoil these times can bring.

You don’t have to suffer in silence and you are not alone.

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Staying Balanced

• WisLAP
• Stress management
  • Getting Through Tough Economic Times
  • Take the stress quiz
  • How to Reduce Stress and be Happy
• Articles
  • Balanced Lives: Changing the Culture of Legal Practice
  • Burnout Prevention for Lawyers
  • Curing the Ills of Work-Related Stress
  • The Dangerous Link Between Chronic Office Chaos, Stress, Depression & Substance Abuse
  • Dealing with Stress and the Law Practice
  • Proactively Reduce Your Stress: Adapt or Change Your Career
  • Stress Management
  • The Contemplative Lawyer: On the Potential Contributions of Mindfulness Meditation to Law Students, Lawyers, and their Clients
  • Lawyers and Stress: An Anti-Quick Fix View
• Managing anxiety and depression
  • Getting Through Tough Economic Times
  • Anxiety, Depression and the Economy
  • Anxiety
    • Freaking out over economic fears
    • How to survive anxiety over today’s economy
    • Generalized Anxiety Disorder vs. General Anxiety about the Economy
    • Learn about Anxiety
  • Depression
    • Suicide and suicidal thoughts
    • Learn all about Depression
    • Pamphlet on depression
    • Depression by Mary Greiner
    • Builders and Destroyers by Attorney Harrison Barnes
    • Lawyers with Depression
    • Healthwatch: Depression and the Economy
    • My Experience with Depression
  • Suicidal Thoughts
    • Hopes Crisis Hotlines
    • Suicide and suicidal thoughts
    • Free download on suicide prevention from the ABA
    • Suicide Prevention
• Alcohol or drug concerns
  • Problems with debt?
  • Alcohol Use Self-test
  • Drug Use Self-test
  • Alcoholics Anonymous
  • Cocaine Anonymous
  • Narcotics Anonymous
  • Smart Recovery
  • Wisconsin Council on Problem Gambling
  • Sexual Addiction
  • Articles
    • Addiction and Attorneys: Confronting the Denial
    • Prescription Medication: Abuse, Addiction and Complicating Factors for Attorneys
• Attorney well-being
  • Women's Health
  • Men's Health
• Compassion fatigue

Stay Involved

• Pro Bono
  • Free liability insurance for pro bono referrals through the Bar or for work in projects that we co-sponsor.
  • Connections to volunteer projects and organizations in need of lawyers to help
  • Free CLE training events like the foreclosure program and the Disaster legal assistance training from YLD (could the materials from this seminar be posted online?)
• Wisconsin Lawyer Articles on Pro Bono
• American Bar Association pro bono resources during the recession