High functioning anxiety 

Do you ever feel friends with anxiety? 

Sometimes anxiety drives us to focus, be on time, prepare for a big presentation or have order in our day. Yet, we wonder why do we have it all together but your heart is racing, thoughts are scattered and you forgot to pay a bill again. Its because high functioning anxiety serves a purpose but it can also become kryptonite. 

It does seem like we have a name for everything these days. It helps us understand ourselves better and label it. I know it has helped me but I can also get stuck in the label of it. This can be dangerous because we are not defined by our anxiety. We live with it. We are NOT it. 

In this episode, I review the symptoms and functions of high functioning anxiety. I have listed below some of the most common symptoms. I also talk about the fawn and freeze response of the nervous system which better helps us understand why it can be difficult to regulate our bodies. 

Symptoms: 

Overachiever 

Planner

Doer

Overthinking or analyzing 

Fear of failure or striving for perfectionism

Nervous habits

Dwelling on past experiences 

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