341 SelfWork: The Five Mental Mistakes of Depression: 4. Not Seeing the Trees For The Forest. And 5. Unrealistic Expectations.
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
We’re going to be talking about the last two major mental mistakes or bad habits that can either lead you into depression or be a factor in your depression worsening or sticking around. And those two are over-generalizing – meaning taking one experience or one piece of knowledge and applying it to everything - or what can be aptly described as "not seeing the trees for the forest." And the last is having unrealistic expectations – not seeing or believing what's accurate at that moment, but instead holding onto a belief or expectation of what you want or what you believe SHOULD happen instead of what's actually happening.
I’m working from Dr. Michael Yapko’s brilliant work on how not being able to make effective discriminations in your thinking can cause bad decisions to be made – decisions that keep you believing in something that is only going to lead to more pain. Click this link to see his handouts for the conference I listened to for this episode!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Selfwork, and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:14.1 | At Selfwork, we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world |
| 0:19.0 | and what to do about them. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm Dr. Margaret, and Selfwork is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today |
| 0:26.2 | for your own Selfwork. |
| 0:29.8 | Hello, and welcome, or welcome back to Selfwork. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:34.3 | I started Selfwork about six and a half years ago, almost seven. |
| 0:38.6 | In order to extend the walls of my practice to those of you who might already be very interested |
| 0:42.7 | in psychological or emotional issues, maybe you're in therapy, to those of you who are |
| 0:47.1 | looking for some answers because you've just been diagnosed with something or you suspected |
| 0:51.5 | something could be wrong, but also to a third group of you that is quite skeptical about |
| 0:56.7 | the whole mental health scene, but you're just curious enough, or sadly unhappy enough, |
| 1:03.2 | to listen in. |
| 1:04.2 | Welcome to all of you. |
| 1:06.5 | One of the things I love about producing Selfwork is finding out something that I either |
| 1:10.4 | never knew had forgotten, or I find out that newer research has shown that what I believe |
| 1:16.2 | needs to be updated or reconsidered. |
| 1:18.6 | This episode is one of those. |
| 1:20.3 | We're going to be talking about the last two major mental mistakes or bad habits that |
| 1:25.4 | can either lead you into depression or be a factor in your depression, worsening or |
| 1:30.0 | sticking around. |
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