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, this is Self Work and I'm so glad you're here.

I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford.

I'm a clinical psychologist whose practice for about 25 years

in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

I started podcasting last year, as I wanted to extend the walls of my practice not only to those who might be in therapy or who might already be interested in psychology

But to those of you who have never to therapy, never talked to a therapist, never thought about

what it would feel or be like. So maybe this will be a little bit of what a therapy session

might feel like to you. I don't know. I've been told that.

Today we're going to be talking about depression, feeling stuck in depression. You know, depression not only can cause you to

isolate, to not enjoy things you used to enjoy

to be sad or agitated but you can become very negative in your thinking and you can

even shut down some ideas that are pretty decent

about how you could begin to try to coax energy that's only going inward I call

depression an implosion of the self to where you are pushing the energy out.

It's really the most difficult thing about depression is how to re-engage with others, re-engage at work, re-engage with your friends, re-engage with your partner,

re-engage with your children. But I'm going to offer you an exercise to confront that feeling stuck and that negativity. It's very

pragmatic. It's very tangible and it's very easy. Today's email from a listener comes from someone who is estranged from an abusive

mom, so she's done that for herself, but now she's not being supported or she's not feeling

supported by a new husband as she feels rejection from

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