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7 Tips to Set Healthy Boundaries with Others

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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……..

It’s wanting to share little facts about yourself with strangers.

It’s needing less and less sleep, but wanting rest, because you want your mind to slow down.

It’s deciding to do short, large projects that you aren’t sure you can do but you’ll be damned if you don’t because you have such high standards for yourself.

It’s seeing how much you can do, just to see where your limits are.

It’s looking at food and going “eh, no thank you” when you haven’t eaten a meal in two days.

It’s obsessive, repetitive thoughts that won’t stop and overlap each other and you don’t know which one to listen to. 

It’s panic attacks as soon as you wake up because the thoughts won’t stop.

It’s anxiety that takes over your body and confuses you because didn’t you feel good a minute ago? 

It’s taking on so much that you collapse under the weight.

It’s not just “elevated mood”. 

Ravenclaw: I don’t even want to be friends with me.

Ravenclaw: Problem is, I’m stuck with me.

Gryffindor: Well I just made some coffee.