This is self-work and I'm Dr Margaret Rutherford. At self-work, we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world and what to do about them.

I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own self-work.

Hi and welcome to self-work. This is my 21st episode. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford and I'm a clinical psychologist out of Fayetteville, Arkansas.

I've been podcasting now since October and am simply delighted with response that I'm getting.

Today we're going to be talking about going deeper into what I have called

perfectly hidden depression. Actually episodes 3 and 3. have called Perfectly Hidden Depression.

Actually, episodes three and four,

some of my very early episodes,

were about the concept or what I call

a syndrome of perfectly hidden depression.

It's a depression that doesn't look like classic depression.

In fact, it looks almost the opposite of classic depression. And again, I did talk about it earlier in episodes 3 and 4, but today we're going to be going a little bit deeper.

First, we're going to talk about PhD or perfectly hidden Depression, I'll call it PhD, it's just easier.

I've called it a syndrome a few minutes ago, but what is a syndrome?

We're going to go through the 10 characteristics of perfectly hidden depression that I've

discovered so far. I've interviewed almost 50 people personally and then I've

gotten hundreds of emails. These characteristics again were mentioned in episode 3, but I did not go into any

detail about them. So today, that's what we're going to do. Third, I'm going to read an email

from a listener about a daughter with panic attacks and how

they weren't correctly diagnosed.

So we'll talk about panic attacks just a little bit.

And then last but not least I have an

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