Personal Lives
Psychotherapist’s Lawyer Diagnosis: Preparing to Live Syndrome
Posted Aug 5, 2008, 12:18 pm CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Professional coach and psychotherapist James Dolan says he has seen too many lawyers living for retirement as they sacrificed happiness and their real passions.
Dolan has coined a term to describe this lawyer affliction: preparing to live syndrome. He writes in Texas Lawyer that too many people fail to grasp that the here and now is the only moment in life that they truly possess.
Instead lawyers tolerate unhappiness in anticipation of “some future point when all will come together, and life will again take on sparkle and value. In the meantime, there is nothing the sufferer can do, and the solution always lies out of reach, in the future.”
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