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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 8, 2020

Margaret Robinson Rutherford, clinical psychologist and author of the book “Perfectly Hidden Depression,” writes in a recent blog about clients who are not melancholy, agitated, or even sad, but are highly engaged with life and very successful though they are struggling. This “hidden” depression, she says, exists far beneath the surface and can be overlooked for two reasons: the individual does not “fit” the expected criteria for depression or the need to look perfect gets in the way of confiding in others, including a therapist. Depression, she writes, can wear many faces, even perfect-looking ones. Check out this questionnaire to see where you might fall on the spectrum of perfectly hidden depression.