Protecting Your Mental Health Waiting For Bar Exam Results
Protecting Your Mental Health Waiting For Bar Exam Results
Waiting for bar exam results is a difficult stretch of time for a number of reasons. The months in between taking the bar exam and receiving results are filled with anxiety, dread, stress, and uncertainty. The ability to immediately pursue a legal career is essentially dangling in front of peoples’ faces for months. Bar exam results can mean one is either eligible to practice law or one has to continue their studies by working to pass the bar exam again. For many applicants, the waiting period that follows the bar exam can result in mental health challenges. Constant levels of anxiety and stress over whether an applicant passed or failed the bar exam can impact someone’s daily quality of life. If you’re feeling weighed down by the constant thought of bar exam results, this is normal!. Thousands of applicants caught in bar exam limbo feel this way! Here are some of our favorite tips to help protect your mental health while waiting on the results from the bar exam.