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 self-work. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. I'm a clinical psychologist.

I've practiced out of Fayetteville, Arkansas now for 25 years and last year I decided

to extend the walls of my practice to try to reach people who either already are

interested in psychology and maybe even go to therapy and might be interested in emotional

topics, psychological topics, but also to those of you out there who might never

darken the door of a therapist, but are just curious enough to wonder what it would be like to talk

with someone. You know, I believe we all have our

bits of wisdom and what I have to pass on to you is the wisdom that I've learned

from the patients that I've seen for 25 years today we're going to be talking about suicide and the

predictability of suicide. I think you're going to be surprised by some of what

the research says. I recently had a mom of a daughter who had had borderline

personality disorder tell me that she can't even look at signs that say suicide is

preventable because she can't believe that her child

actually committed suicide it may have been accidental it may not have been

but it's very hurtful to think that she could have prevented it.

So we're going to talk some about what the research actually shows.

Then I'm going to tie that in with talking about perfectly hidden depression a lot. For those of you who are return listeners,

you know that that is a passion of mine

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