What is High Functioning Anxiety? 3 Causes and Ways to Cope better.

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✨POV✨: about time someone got to the bottom of the true feelings of high functioning anxiety.
 

What Is High Functioning Anxiety? 🥶

 
High functioning anxiety can go unnoticed.
This is because, on the outside, people with high functioning anxiety can look like perfectionists, well put together, and organized.
Most times, these positive traits stem from a secret fuel - anxiety.
 
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This underlying level of anxiety may let you get things done and stay afloat with your tasks and schedule, but it stems from fear of failure, conflict, or disappointing people.
These are underlying signs of anxiety that, when ignored, can impact mental health conditions. This is when it's become an anxiety disorder. This is also why high functioning anxiety in itself is not counted as one of the mental disorders.

3 Causes and symptoms of High Functioning Anxiety 🥶

👉🏽  Generalized anxiety disorder

 
This is when you experience underlying high functioning anxiety or significant anxiety throughout the day. The symptoms can physically manifest as muscle tension or muscle aches; there's difficulty sleeping because of your excessive anxiety and constant worry.

👉🏽  Panic disorder

 
Panic disorders can stem from past traumatic events leading to physical symptoms like breathlessness and chest pain, causing panic attacks.

👉🏽  Other anxiety disorders

Social anxiety disorder

 
This is when social situations fill you with overwhelming anxiety symptoms like low self-esteem and excessive worry about people's judgment.
Check Chronic Anxiety: What It Means and How to Cope for more on anxiety disorders.

3 coping strategies 🤗

 
People with high functioning anxiety tend to have nervous habits like nail biting or leg shaking. This is when you know it's time to replace that behavior with healthier ones to treat anxiety symptoms.
Here are some ways:

🌬  Deep breathing

 
The next time high functioning anxiety fills your mind with negative thoughts that feel like unnecessary suffering, stop and take a deeeep breath.
 
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Hold it for about 4 seconds, then let it out for 7.
Or let being, the world's first-of-kind self-therapy app, help with that. Check out this mini guided session designed by mental health specialists that you can turn into a daily life routine - I see anxiety taking hold of me.

👀  Healthy distraction

 
Just like how some people spend time with a stress ball or activities like baking, painting, and knitting are great distractions. Then there's being too - here, I embrace my fears, fully and lovingly.

🧠  Rest it out

 
Rest is not the opposite of productivity but the fuel for it.
Don't shy away from asking for a day off if that's what it takes to boost your mental health.
Pamper yourself now and then.
It can be baking or just catching up with a few friends.
Or let being help you with this one; check out: I just want to rest and relax before bed.

To conclude 💜

 
Living with high functioning anxiety can feel exhausting and make you feel like no one understands.
Know that you are doing the best you can in everything you're entrusted to do.
 
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In the interim, if you’re looking for easy access to address your stress and anxious thoughts, try being. Here, you can access mini therapies, aka personalized and bite-sized therapy sessions designed by mental health specialists for any feeling or emotion.
You're doing great! Be proud!

Disclaimer

This is not a substitute for therapy or mental health services. Consult mental health professionals for high functioning anxiety problems or mental disorders 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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