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Interested in this article. Looking out for your colleagues is fine, although it can be perceived as intrusive if you don't have a close relationship with that staff member. The whole culture of law practice seems conducive to poor mental health, with constant or at least daily reminders to maintain costs targets. I fell off the horse a few years ago, with a depressive condition which was directly related to the stresses of work, and although i suffered unhelpful comments about my mental state from my colleagues, this is not what keeps me from returning. I am now recovered, and am still registered as a solicitor but i I look at changes in procedure, funding, etc and only imagine that the job is more, rather than less stressful. I would literally rather flip burgers than risk my mental health to that again. Really, stigma is not the worse thing about mental illness, lack of money, treatment, the illness itself, and in my case, the loss of a career that i used to love, all much worse.