Ep.133: Perfectly Hidden Depression with Dr. Margaret Robinson Rutherford
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist
4.9 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit, I speak with the incredible Dr. Margaret Robinson Rutherford. I cannot tell you how happy I am that she reached out for this interview. In this episode, Dr. Margaret Robinson Rutherford talks to us about a term coined, perfectly hidden depression. She talks specifically about how it differs from classic depression and she describes for us the ten characteristics of perfectly hidden depression with number 8 being that it often accompanies mental health struggles such as OCD, eating disorders, addictions or anxiety disorders.
The following are those 10 commonly shared characteristics that Dr. Margaret Robinson Rutherford discusses:
- You are highly perfectionistic, with a constant, critical inner voice of intense shame.
- You demonstrate a heightened or excessive sense of responsibility.
- You have difficulty accepting and expressing painful emotions.
- You worry a great deal and avoid situations where control isn't possible.
- You intensely focus on tasks, using accomplishment as a way to feel valuable.
- You have an active and sincere concern about the well-being of others while allowing few if any into your inner world.
- You discount or dismiss hurt or abuse from the past or the present.
- You have accompanying mental health issues, involving control or escape from anxiety.
- You hold a strong belief in "counting your blessings" as the foundation of well-being.
- You have emotional difficulty in personal relationships, but demonstrate significant professional success.
Dr. Margaret Robinson Rutherford also addresses the Five C's in the healing process for perfectly hidden depression. I think you will really resonate with the words and concepts discussed in this episode. Thank you Dr. Margaret Robinson Rutherford for your wonderful work.
https://drmargaretrutherford.com/perfectly-hidden-depression/
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https://drmargaretrutherford.com/selfwork/
OCD Gamechangers – Annual Conference
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March 7 @ 10:00 am - 6:00 pm MST
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Denver, CO 80218 United States
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 133. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. |
| 0:16.0 | This podcast is fueled by three main goals. |
| 0:19.0 | The first goal is to provide you with some extra |
| 0:22.2 | tools to help you manage your anxiety. Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide |
| 0:28.9 | how you live your life. And number three, and I leave the best for last, is to provide you |
| 0:34.7 | with one big, fat virtual hug hug because experiencing anxiety ain't easy. |
| 0:40.6 | If that sounds good to you, let's go. |
| 0:47.6 | Welcome back, everybody. I'm so grateful to have you here with me again on this beautiful, beautiful day. |
| 0:55.1 | We're meeting again to talk about all things mental health, all things anxiety, all things |
| 1:00.6 | depression, all things mental wellness, all my favorite topics. |
| 1:06.6 | We have such an important conversation happening today on the podcast, and I cannot wait to share that with you. |
| 1:13.6 | But before I do, let's get through a couple of housekeeping, shall we? |
| 1:19.2 | All right. |
| 1:19.8 | Number one, the 2020 OCD Game Changes conference is back. |
| 1:26.5 | I am so excited to be asked again to attend and speak at this event. |
| 1:32.1 | And again, it's in Denver, where it was last year, such an amazing event. If you can get yourself |
| 1:38.8 | there because it was just so empowering and the advocates are incredible and it was just such a beautiful, |
| 1:47.1 | beautiful event. So OCD Game Changes will be on March 7th of 2020 between 10 and 6 p.m. That's |
| 1:55.2 | mountain time, but if you're there, you'll be on that time. And it will be in Denver. So if you're |
| 2:00.4 | wanting information, you can click on the time. And it will be in Denver. So if you're wanting information, |
| 2:01.4 | you can click on the link here in the show notes that will get you directly to the sign up page. |
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