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.

Hello and welcome to a new year of self-work. I hope you had a wonderful holiday.

I'm Dr. Margaret. I'm a clinical psychologist out of Fayetteville, Arkansas,

and I started podcasting a little over a year ago because I wanted to extend the

walls of my practice to reach those who might be in therapy, might have had treatment

in the past, but for others who might not ever

darken the door of a therapist, but are a little curious about what someone like me

would have to say. On my Facebook page last week, I asked people what topics they'd like me to talk about this year

things came up like road rage

Procrastination how is work exhaustion different from laziness decluttering

hypochondriasis fear of abandonment finances making judgments about people so we have a lot to talk about

But today I'm going to start off talking in 2018 about what I'm most

passionate about and that is a syndrome I call perfectly hidden depression. I have several podcasts on it, beginning with

Numbers 3 and 4, but if you scroll through the list of Podcast, you'll see some others.

We'll talk about what Perfectly hidden depression is and today you're

going to hear from real people who have written me about their perfectly hidden

depression. And today we're going to have an email from a listener which is a regular feature on the podcast.

Someone who found herself in the description of perfectly hidden oppression but is using pot every day in order to function.

She has lots of past trauma, so we'll hear from her today.

It's great that you've joined me. Thanks so much and we're going to be talking

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