Perfectly Hidden Depression: Do You Have It? With Dr. Margaret Rutherford

If you were brought up in a family or a culture that never
recognized, discussed, or processed things like depression and
trauma, you may have learned to simply hide those difficult
feelings away and simply act as if everything’s great. You can be
a high achiever, striving perfection, all to keep away demons
that you’ve never really faced. Your act can be so good that it
even fools you. For a while, anyway. Until it doesn’t. And then
things can get very ugly. Psychologist Dr. Margaret Rutherford
coined the term Perfectly Hidden Depression several years ago in
a blog post that instantly went viral, filling her inbox with
people shocked to recognize their own lives in what she
described. She joins us to talk about PHD, how to recognize it in
yourself, and what to do about it.


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