Over an 18-month period starting in late 2011, including one period of self-admitted hospitalisation, Jerome Doraisamy experienced and suffered from severe clinical depression and anxiety. His bout of ill-health was demonstrative of how pushing yourself to the physical and emotional limit can wreak havoc on emotional and psychological health and wellbeing.

In early 2013, when he was able to once again take up work, he returned to the University of Technology, where he had studied law and communications. In the course of his new work, he began to appreciate how the same issues he experienced while at law school were also manifesting within new students coming through the ranks. Angered by what he perceived to be a cyclical, toxic culture within all Australian law schools, and thereby the wider legal profession, he decided to take action.

The end result was a first-of-its kind self-help book for law students and young lawyers, serving as a practical how-to guide for those in law to proactively manage and combat the myriad issues that can and do arise in the legal educational and professional spheres. Relying on his own personal experience, expertise from medical professionals, anthropological interviews with dozens of lawyers across the board, and an extraordinary foreword from former chief justice of the High Court of Australia, Sir Gerard Brennan, The Wellness Doctrines for Law Students and Young Lawyers achieved significant success across the legal profession.