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Impeccable bedroom with no clothing or shoes lying about.Children’s toys stacked in orderly bins.

Fluffed pillows and knitted throws on the sectional sofa.Kids photos on the fridge, carefully labeled.I have it easy compared with most people.”īut on a morning when the client’s husband called Rutherford saying he was worried about his wife, Rutherford went to the house and found her client in the “vodka” scene described above.Īnd later, after the EMT’s had taken the woman to the hospital, Rutherford had time to think through other aspects of this frightening situation. In the house she found: The friend often told Margaret: “I shouldn’t complain. Sleep disturbances (difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, oversleeping, or daytime sleepiness)īut as Margaret Robinson Rutherford writes in her new book: PERFECTLY HIDDEN DEPRESSION-the above list does not always apply, did not describe a friend who Rutherford had been seeing in therapy for anxiety.Feelings of hopelessness or helplessness.Loss of interest in socializing or hobbies.

Unexplained or aggravated aches and pains.

If in disbelief, you had immediately googled signs of depression in adults, you might have found the following list that just did not apply to your friend and made you wonder what was really going on. Or what if you get a call from a neighbor one morning, who through tears gives you the address of the hospital where an ambulance just took your close friend, because she was found lying in bed with an empty fifth of vodka and a half-full bottle of potentially lethal benzodiazepines by her side. No need to worry, your son is exhibiting none of these symptoms.

Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much.

Little interest or pleasure in doing things.

After a while you begin to worry and you search online for signs of depression in young people to find: He seems fine, but whenever he comes back from a job interview, he claims that he turned them down. What if you’re becoming worried about your son who has finished college and is home living with you.