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.

Hello I'm so glad you've decided to take the first moments of 2019 to listen to self-work.

I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. I'm a clinical psychologist.

I've been practicing in Fable, Arkansas for now 26 years, welcome to 2019, and I began

podcasting a couple of years ago because I wanted to extend the walls of my practice to those

who might already be in therapy and simply be

interested in another mental health professional's opinion or attitude or

technique or whatever but I also wanted to reach out to those of you who may just have been diagnosed with

depression or anxiety or maybe you're going through a divorce or you're just having relationship

problems.

I want to talk with you as well. And of course then there are

those of you who might just be curious enough to listen, but would never walk in

the therapist door. That's okay. Hopefully I can have something to offer you as well. Today

we're going to be talking about the myths of depression and there are a lot of

them but I picked seven because these are common questions I get or I hear comments

like this out in public.

So we're going to set the record straight today and talk about not just more common forms of depression, but some myths about

forms of depression that aren't quite so well known. Many of you have listened to

my podcasts on perfectly hidden depression and I wanted to announce quite humbly but also with

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