5 Facts You Need to Know About High Functioning Anxiety
High functioning anxiety is not actually a recognised diagnosis, however many people suffering with anxiety will connect with the term. It refers to people who have anxiety, but outwardly seem to have everything together, in other words they function ‘normally’. If you have high functioning anxiety, you’ll find that your anxiety pushes you forward rather than pulling you back, and, in certain situations can be helpful. However that doesn’t mean it isn’t extremely debilitating.
Having high functioning anxiety myself has lead me to experience lot of awkward circumstances, where people just haven’t understood where I’m coming from. It seems to me it isn’t something that people aren’t aware of, so Psych2Go shares with you 5 facts you need to know about high functioning anxiety:
1. It’s not easy to see.
Someone who suffers with high functioning anxiety will appear to be a very successful individual. Your work is always delivered on time, you arrive places early with a great parking spot, you’re immaculately dressed and always seem to be on the go. However what people can’t see is the crippling anxiousness and fear inside you that helps to create this aura of success. Your anxiety makes you……..
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