A Real Killer Depression can kill. It kills directly or indirectly, quickly or slowly. Depression can be terminal for individuals, families, marriages, businesses and vocations. Lawyers and law firms are all too often among its casualties.
Depression is always painful, even when transitory.
My depression was lifelong. The wisdom and allegiance of my spouse has also been immeasurably important to my recovery. Years before the LAP was established by the WSBA, I came to realize that I had a problem. But that happened long after I had set my course as an underachiever in school, in law and in my family. I had successes.