So — you have a group of
people who feel over-worked, attacked from clients, courts, regulators — and who are then required to work within a system which is, itself,
dysfunctional — and, as the front - line contact between the «system» and the client, the lawyers are asked to answer and respond to the deficiencies in the system which they did not
create.
Intimacy anorexia is type of relationship addiction (a condition in which a
person has a need for love yet repeatedly enters into or
creates dysfunctional relationships), and often is associated with sexual addictions.