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 as 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 Rutherford, I'm a clinical psychologist.

I've been practicing in Fable, Arkansas for 25 years now.

I cannot believe that now that is 2018.

In this podcast, we're going to be looking at all kinds of diverse issues

that are psychological and emotional in nature,

and you're going to hear what a psychologist has to say

about that.

I'm trying to reach out to people who may be fascinated by these topics in general or may

never even have considered walking through a therapist door.

So if you're either one of those, I hope today's topic will be interesting to you.

We're going to talk today about procrastination, putting things off. There actually may be several causes of

procrastination and I think it's important to know what's underneath it in order to try to work with it because something is gaining

precedence over a task getting done or an experience being explored. You're

putting it off like we said. It can be about shame, fear, about habits, focus,

avoidance, depression. It can't all be found in the same bag. And then we have our weekly email from a listener that's a

regular feature of self-work. This time it's someone with perfectly hidden

depression that's coming forward for the first time and what does that feel like?

If you listen to any of my episodes on perfectly hidden depression, you know that that is a

syndrome of behaviors that I'm passionate about talking about that serve to hide painful emotions,

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