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The Mental Health Questions on the Connecticut Bar Exam: A Life-Changing Journey

Discover the challenges faced by Bar Exam passers with mental health conditions. Explore the intrusive questions, conditional admissions, and finding resilience. A candid reflection on the evolving landscape of mental health in the legal profession.

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The Mental Health Questions on the Connecticut Bar Exam: A Life-Changing Journey

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  1. The “mental health” questions on the Connecticut Bar Exam

  2. “Form 8” of the CT Bar Exam Application

  3. Congratulations! You Passed the Bar! But…

  4. Why are you before this Committee?

  5. “It’s our rules.”

  6. If you don’t take your meds, you will…[fill in the blank]

  7. OMG did I really say that?

  8. Q’s that make you go

  9. More transcripts

  10. More questions about meds

  11. The questions continue

  12. Findings of “Fact” and Conditional Admission - finally

  13. In retrospect:

  14. Essentially: “We Used to Not Let People Like You into the Bar”

  15. I’m allowed to be sworn in - in open court? (Guess I should be grateful.)

  16. The letter I received every year – twice a year – for almost nine years.

  17. A carefully worded affidavit

  18. Letter from the Doctor

  19. Filing complaint with DOJ

  20. Conditions are removed 3/29/06

  21. A bit of a letdown, TBH

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