The SelfWork Podcast Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD

You have to acknowledge your depression in order to begin to talk about it. That may sound simple to do. But it's not quite so simple.

Why? Because nobody particularly wants to realize or admit that your way of "being" has changed, without you trying to change it. And in fact, you may have become so accustomed to being somewhat depressed, that it can lull you into thinking, "Well, this is just my new normal."

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Today, I'm excited to introduce SelfWork listeners to the Zero To Travel Podcast, a show that helps you travel the world on your terms. I hope you'll give it a listen.

How do you thrive with anxiety? Dr. David Rosemarin is our guest today who talks specifically about how to understand your anxiety as something that can help you thrive - when you work with it, and not against it.

David is the director of the Spirituality and Mental Health Program at McLean Hospital, which is an incredible psychiatric hospital. And he's an associate professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. That's a lot of credits! He studies the relevance of spirituality to mental health. His own research has identified that faith is associated with improved treatment outcomes for depressed patients who see themselves as "spiritual beings."

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Today we're focusing on the lasting impact of trauma. Many of us are quite good - or efficient is perhaps a better word – at avoiding and denying and building a façade that’s rock solid around you… that no one would guess that trauma had every occurred in your life. Or how it could be affecting you now.

I have a story for you that will illustrate how easily it can be affecting you in ways that you don't recognize... until you do. And healing from trauma can occur, perhaps slowly, but it's more than possible. As always, we'll focus on "what you can do about it."

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What do you do when you hit a wall? And what IS that wall anyway? How often are you able to recognize that that’s what’s happening?

We'll focus on three different walls: exhaustion, self-doubt, and saying, "I don't know."

Our listener email is from a man who recognizes himself as being enmeshed with his mother and perfectly hidden depression.

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Perfectly hidden depression can end in tragedy.

I don’t quite remember when Penny Gray and I first talked. It was after 2019 when PHD was published. But not long after.

She’s the widow of a man, Dave, who tragically fit the rubric of perfectly hidden depression. And killed himself suddenly and without any overt sign of depression.

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