025 SelfWork: Living With Anxiety And Bipolar Disorder: Stories From This Is My Brave
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
What does it feel like to live with mental illness, such as panic disorder or bipolar disorder? In this episode, Dr. Margaret tells her story of having and managing panic attacks, as performed in the local This Is My Brave program. In rehearsal, she met the young Caitlin McDowell, whose stunning piece on living with bipolar disorder […]
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| 0:00.0 | This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. At self-work, I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:14.0 | At self-work, we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world and what to do about them. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just |
| 0:25.2 | a few minutes today for your own self-work. |
| 0:30.3 | Hello and welcome to self-work. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. I'm a clinical psychologist out of Fayetteville, Arkansas. I've been doing this now for, wow, 25 years. Yikes. And I started podcasting back in October and I'm so delighted you've |
| 0:46.4 | joined me. Today we're going to be talking about the organization. This is my brave. |
| 0:52.0 | I guess she got the title from the saying My Bad and so, you know, my bad. So now it's my brave. |
| 1:00.0 | Jennifer Marshall started This is My Brave and I'm going to tell you of the story of how it began |
| 1:05.4 | It's a program that features people with mental illness talking about living with their mental illness |
| 1:12.3 | I actually participated in the local program |
| 1:15.5 | of This is My Brave a couple of weeks ago and I'm going to tell you about my |
| 1:18.9 | experience that I'm going to share with you my own story of Living with Panic Disorder and I met a stunning |
| 1:26.7 | young woman named Caitlin McDowell and I'm going to share excerpts of her piece as well. I was so blown away by her talking about |
| 1:35.8 | living with her bipolar disorder. Then last but not least we're going to read an |
| 1:40.8 | email from a listener and we're talking about the relationship of |
| 1:44.8 | past trauma with perfectly hidden depression. I've had three episodes on what I |
| 1:50.1 | term perfectly hidden depression which is a syndrome of behaviors where someone is |
| 1:55.6 | depressed, but they have created a persona that's almost perfect and hides their pain |
| 2:02.1 | from the world and sometimes even from themselves. and |
| 2:03.0 | sometimes even from themselves. |
| 2:05.0 | So we'll read that email and I'll give my answer. I first met Jennifer Marshall via the internet. She had found a post from actually a friend of hers |
| 2:27.1 | whose son had killed himself quite suddenly quite unexpectedly and that mother had found on the internet my work on |
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