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Hi and welcome to my third podcast. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford or Dr. Margaret. I'm a

clinical psychologist practicing in Fable Arkansas for over 20 years and I'm so

excited to bring you this podcast.

This episode we're going to be talking about something that I feel very very passionate about.

It's called Perfectly Hidden Depression.

That's a term that I coined to describe a presentation of depression that doesn't look at all like classic depression.

So much so that therapists can miss it.

It's different than classic depression,

which always has a component of what's called Anhedonia within it.

An Anhedonia is simply not being involved or interested in things that you were

previously interested in. That's far from what someone with perfectly

hidden depression look like. They are engaged and

very driven. But underneath hidden, there can be very dark or painful thoughts.

In this episode I'll tell you about how I came upon the concept of perfectly hidden depression

or we might call it PhD.

I'm going to tell you what exactly perfectly hidden depression is.

We're going to go over a questionnaire that I've created to try to help people identify themselves

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