Compartmentalization

As legal professionals, we often need to utilize our compartmentalization skills. We need to be objective in the legal advice that we give. We need to put disappointing results in one case behind us to provide zealous advocacy for our other cases. And while we also compartmentalize our personal lives into separate boxes from our professional ones, the truth is that our compartmentalization should never be a completely sealed box. 

This is especially true for our mental health. In this regard, compartmentalization can be dangerous. For example, I compartmentalized my darkness and my depression into a box that no one could see. And by keeping my darkness compartmentalized, I allowed it to grow, to fester, and keep me struggling with that darkness. 

Opening up that box and shining a light on the darkness helped me start to heal. By breaking down the walls of my compartments and by deciding who I wanted to be a part of my support network, I grew stronger and was able to prevent that darkness from pulling me back down. 

Yet we know how hard it can be to do that. We’ve been there. And we are here to help. Our peer support programs are a safe space, a confidential space that legal professionals can turn to in order to get help with the darkness they might have compartmentalized.

Email us at info@thelegalmindsociety.org for more information.