Orlando Da Silva: Surviving Depression and Using His Words to Help Others

Orlando Da Silva: Surviving Depression and Using His Words to Help Others

July 3, 2026 · 57 min

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Orlando Da Silva shares his journey with treatment-resistant depression and his efforts to help others through his experiences.

Orlando Da Silva is a lawyer of over 30 years, former president of the Ontario Bar Association, and one of the first people in the Canadian legal profession to publicly disclose his struggle with treatment-resistant depression and generalized anxiety. When he became OBA president in 2014, he spent two years working up the courage to go public, eventually sharing his story in a Law Times interview that was picked up by the Toronto Star. He is the author of Thank God I Failed, a memoir about de...

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