{"id":676,"date":"2024-05-10T17:09:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T17:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/two-separate-lives-lawyers-share-personal-stories-of-addiction-recovery\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T15:28:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T15:28:30","slug":"two-separate-lives-lawyers-share-personal-stories-of-addiction-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/two-separate-lives-lawyers-share-personal-stories-of-addiction-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Two Separate Lives&#8217;: Lawyers Share Personal Stories of Addiction, Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The legal profession contains many factors\u2014high stress levels, perfectionist standards, pressure from clients and partners\u2014that lead to higher rates of substance abuse compared to other professions, as well as a heightened stigma against those seeking help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttorneys are not allowed to make mistakes,\u201d said retired administrative law<a href=\"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/elder-law-lawyers.html\"> judge<\/a> Mary Beth O\u2019Connor, who serves as a director for She Recovers Foundation and LifeRing Secular Recovery, at a program held Wednesday in suburban Philadelphia. \u201cClients expect you to be perfect, partners expect you to be perfect and <a href=\"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/mesothelioma-lawyers.html\">judges expect<\/a> you to be perfect. That can lead to compulsion to drink and it can add to the stigma to be perfect and not seek treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legal profession contains many factors\u2014high stress levels, perfectionist standards, pressure from clients and partners\u2014that lead to higher rates of substance abuse compared to other professions, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1017,7,1015,1016,1018,1014,437,181],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-addiction","tag-lawyers","tag-lives","tag-personal","tag-recovery","tag-separate","tag-share","tag-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}