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 Self Work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just

a few minutes today for your own self-work.

Hello and thanks for being here on Selfwork. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. I'm a clinical

psychologist out of Fayetteville, Arkansas and I cannot believe I'm doing my 85th

episode of self-work.

That's amazing to me, and it's because of you.

Your many comments, your ratings and reviews

have given me the motivation to continue. So thank you so very much for being such a great

audience. I started self-work last year because I wanted to reach people who were interested

in psychological topics or perhaps even had

been to therapy but also to reach people who really didn't have much of an idea

of what a mental health professional would sound like.

So that's why self-work was created.

Today we're going to be talking about perfectionism.

Obviously when you're trying to confront your own perfectionistic bent, you're not going to do it perfectly.

So this podcast isn't on how your perfectionism got started, but once you recognize it in yourself, what to do about it.

It's one of the chief traits of what I call perfectly hidden depression, and by the way, I'm writing a book on Perfectly Hidden Depression and

actually celebrated getting half that book into my publisher this week.

So I'll let you know more news about the book as I have it.

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