I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Rutherford a few years back and keep track of her work about people with perfectly hidden depression.
She has a post up on Psych Central about telling her story about having panic attacks. This is from a talk she gave as a speaker at This is the Brave storytelling event.
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Show 116 - The Not So Wonderful World of Generalized Anxiety Disorder

General Anxiety Disorder becomes a medical condition when the worrying last more than six months AND it impacts and limits your life. You stop going places. You shrug off invitations. You don’t make the change you spent hours thinking about and then nothing really happened or changed.
In this episode,...
Show 115 Farmers Need Help and More Apps for Symptom Management

Coming back from a head cold. Lots of news items to cover, the proposed post-partum depression bill in California. a federal bill to provide mental health services to farmers, ranchers and agricultural workers, a book, and an app or two. Life is what it is but there are ways to make your body feel more...
Video on Power of Grandmothers, Depression and CBT
Not just in the United States, there is a reduction in the number of psychiatrist that are available to treat mental health concerns like depression.
We can either lament the loss or find ways to deliver treatment options.
Dixon Chibanda gave a TED Women talk about invoking the power of the grandmothers in delivering primary cognitive behavioral therapy services in Zimbabwe.
In America,...
Encore - How to Select a Therapist and the Talkspace App

Well, I was up against it again and since there are only 24 hours in a day, I ran out of time. This is an encore presentation (or in my day, a re-run) of episode 64 which talked about finding a therapist.
The good news is that it isn't as harsh as it was originally. I've tweaked the levels so it might...
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