This is self-work and I'm Dr 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 or welcome back to self-work.

I'm Dr Margaret.

I'm a clinical psychologist and I practice in Fable, Arkansas.

I've been doing that for over 20 years.

And I started self-work in order to reach out and extend the walls of my practice to anyone

interested in mental health issues or perhaps who experience mental illness of some kind themselves. I also talk some about relationship issues

because I've done a great deal of couples work. So I'm glad you're here. Today we're

going to be talking about depression. I'm going to speak briefly about depression

and how you can identify that you have it, but I'm also going to be talking about how it's different

from what I call perfectly hidden

depression. I've included some responses that have been emailed to me from people

who strongly identify with perfectly hidden depression because I think in those

people's words you can really hear what depression is like. We're going to be

talking about is perfectly hidden depression intentional.

interested in some of the other episodes that I've talked about perfectly

hidden depression, they are episodes 3, 4, and 21.

If you really are interested in the topic, I want to announce that I'll be doing my

next podcast on the potential causes of perfectly hidden depression. So you might want to

tune in then. And today we've got an email from a listener

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