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 to self-work. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. I'm a clinical psychologist

out of Fayeville, Arkansas and gosh I've been practicing for over 25 years. I

began this podcast to expand the walls of my practice to those of you who might be very

interested in psychological emotional issues might even be in therapy yourself but

also to those who might have been initially diagnosed with anxiety or

depression and you're looking for answers.

And then of course there's the third group to those of you who might never darken the door of a therapist,

but are just curious enough to listen to what someone like me might say

or perhaps have to offer.

So welcome to all of you. Today we're going to be talking about

depression and I'm going to base what I have to say from a Harvard article that was

updated in June of 2019 so it's really recent research.

What this article talked about was the relationship between your brain and depression.

Now I'm not a scientist nor a neurologist so I'll share with you the

basic way I understand these things. Definitely the old chicken and the egg

question applies here we're not really sure what comes first. Depression or

neurological changes. But what I want to get across quite clearly is that

depression is way more than a chemical imbalance. I've read that that's

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