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.

Hi and welcome or welcome back to self-work. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford, a clinical

psychologist out of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Gosh I've been practicing about 26 years

now as a psychologist and I started podcasting two and a half years ago in order to reach

all different kinds of people kind of to extend the walls of my practice. I

wanted to reach people who are already interested in psychological issues, maybe even in therapy themselves.

I wanted to reach people who had just been diagnosed with anxiety or depression or bipolar disorder or something where they were looking for answers. or group that might really never darken the door of a therapist but might just

be curious enough to listen to a podcast. Now this isn't therapy but I am a therapist so

you're going to get an idea today of what talking with a therapist might just be like.

So welcome to all of you.

As many of you know, I've been writing a book on what I term perfectly hidden depression

which will be launched November the 1st of this year I'm excited to say and

recently I've been revamping my website posts on it. Google likes that supposedly. But what I'm finding out,

because I've been writing now for four to five years about it,

what I'm finding out is how much my own thinking has grown with all the interviews and the

posts I've read on perfectionism or the articles I've read since I began researching it.

You may have listened to some of the episodes on perfectly hidden depression.

They're interspersed throughout self-work.

It starts with number three and four.

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