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✨POV✨: Just when you thought these teenage years weren't hectic enough - here creeps in the high functioning anxiety.
What it's like to live with high functioning anxiety 🧐
You know how tough it is to keep up with assignments and never-ending deadlines.
Now add high functioning anxiety to it - you may get a confusing mix of its positive traits and negative characteristics.
Yup - you read that right.
To break it down, people with high functioning anxiety tend to be super organized, perfectionist, proactive, or a stickler for time or schedule.
But did you know that inherent anxiety disorders can fuel these tendencies?
But don't get this wrong - high functioning anxiety does not fall under mental disorders.
Now to turn to negative traits of high functioning anxiety, do you relate to nervous habits like nail-biting, constant leg shaking, or putting in more work than anyone for that school project out of the fear of failure?
These point to high functioning anxiety where you can get stuff done, but there's an underlying fear that stops you from showing true feelings or making it tough to maintain relationships.
Don't worry - with a little bit of consistency and self-love; you can treat anxiety symptoms!
Where did this stem from 🤔
👉🏽 Generalized anxiety disorder
You experience significant anxiety symptoms like a racing heart, difficulty sleeping, and muscle tension.
You can't stop worrying about everyday life tasks like getting ready for school or even socializing with friends.
👉🏽 Panic disorder
High functioning anxiety stemming from past traumatic events leads to intense fear and panic attacks.
A panic attack is when negative thoughts lead to physical symptoms like breathlessness that can feel like a heart attack.
👉🏽 Other anxiety disorders
Social anxiety disorders: This makes it tough to be around people without having excessive worry causing low self-esteem or self-confidence.
For more on anxiety disorders, check Chronic Anxiety: What It Means and How to Cope.
How to deal with high functioning anxiety 🤗
These are some coping strategies that can help the next time your high functioning anxiety creeps in:
👀 Distraction
Know that these are just your anxious thoughts, not reality.
The best way to manage stress is to find a healthy distraction. It can be by interrupting your thoughts with song lyrics or taking a water break.
Another way can be by accessing mini guided sessions on being - the first of kind self-therapy app for every feeling. Check this one out to start with- I just want to stop overthinking everything.
💭 Recenter
Anxiety has a way of keeping you either in the past or in the future.
This is why you find ways to bring yourself to this moment in the present. Fortunately, with being, you can make this a routine! Here - I see my anxiety taking hold of me.
⚡️ Do it anyway
Yup - your anxious thoughts won't let you see what lies on the other side, but you can't let that rob you of your teenage years.
Got a prom date to ask out? Do it.
Got an exam? Give it your best.
Or, let being walk with you through this - I embrace my fears, fully and lovingly.
Before we wrap up 🥰
It's normal to be anxious about a situation or event.
But know that it needs to be dealt with when it overpowers our capacity to think or function.
But in the interim, there's always being to help you make it through the day. With their mini therapies designed by mental health specialists, you can access therapy tools like meditation any time you want!
Breathe, you got this!
Disclaimer
This is not a substitute for therapy or mental health services. Consult mental health professionals for high functioning anxiety problems or your depression/anxiety disorder diagnosis (or other mental health disorder/mental illness or clinical disorders). Their primary treatments and diagnostic criteria for treating anxiety disorders include cognitive behavioral therapy and progressive muscle relaxation - some of the therapies and techniques your mental health professional would recommend.
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