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Judges and Judiciary
Dec. 8, 2022
How Hollywood exacerbates anxiety medication side-effects
There are over 1700 judges in California. That means more than 400 judges fall into the anxiety/depression population. Does that mean 25% of California’s judges must be removed from the bench? Of course not.
Yolo County Courthouse
Timothy L. Fall
Judge
Yolo County Superior Court
Civil/Probate/LPS
Tim has been a superior court judge since 1995. His mental health memoir "Running for Judge: Campaigning on the Trail of Despair, Deliverance, and Overwhelming Success" is meant to encourage those who have a mental illness diagnosis and to educate people who want to learn more. For those who still insist mental illness is all in your head, he writes this: "And a heart attack is all in your chest. Go see a doctor either way." https://www.amazon.com/Running-Judge-Campaigning-Deliverance-Overwhelming/dp/1725260875
My anxiety medication comes with an unlisted side effect. I’ll get back to that in a moment.
Fiction requires the suspension of disbelief. Good writing can make this easy for most people, but when you’re a judge it takes especially good writing for courtroom dramas and police procedurals. The speed with which judges grant search warrant requests, the ability of victims to prevent officers from carrying out lawful arrests by declaring they ...
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