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 I'm so glad you've tuned in to self-work today.

I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford.

I'm a clinical psychologist out of Fayetteville, Arkansas, and I've been practicing for, gosh, 2019. it will make it 26 years here in faitful I'm not

at all burned out by what I do in fact I still so enjoy and feel very honored that people tell me about

their histories and their lives and ask me to help with trauma or loss or grief or

depression or anxiety, whatever it happens to be

and two years ago when I began

podcasting I really wanted to extend the walls of my practice

to those of you who may be seeing other therapists but would appreciate a

slightly different opinion. For those of you who are new to mental health or

mental illness and you've been diagnosed with depression or anxiety or an eating disorder or

bipolar disorder whatever it is and perhaps this would be helpful to you as well.

And thirdly for those of you who might never reach out to a therapist or psychologist for help,

but are curious about what someone like me would have to say.

So welcome to all three groups or whoever else is listening.

Today I'm going to focus again on my passion, perfectly hidden depression.

I'm writing a book on it that will actually be published in November of 2019.

I received two emails this week in the same day and I actually thought someone had sent

their email twice because what I saw at the very beginning of the email was so dramatic.

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