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 welcome or welcome back to self-work.

I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford.

I'm a clinical psychologist and I've worked in Fable, Arkansas

since 1993, moving here from Dallas.

I started a podcast three years ago now, or almost three years ago,

to extend the walls of my practice so that I could talk with others about their interest in psychological and emotional issues, maybe they were in therapy, where I could

offer to people who'd been recently diagnosed some information that might be helpful to them.

And then there's that third group, those people who might never darken the door of a therapist.

In fact, maybe they even hold some stigma about mental health treatment or maybe they don't even

believe mental illness exists.

Now that person may not listen to this podcast.

But I think there are people out there.

In fact, some of you have told me that you are one of them

that are curious enough and actually need help enough to listen to a

podcast before you're ready to actually seek therapeutic treatment. I get it. I

I develop panic disorder in my, but sort of my middle 20s. It was four years

before I went to treatment because I didn't want to believe that anything was wrong

with me. But as it crept more and more into my life,

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