What High-Functioning Depression and Anxiety Can Look Like
Some of the people who are struggling the most are still answering emails on time. They are showing up to work, taking care of children, paying bills, remembering birthdays, and sounding perfectly composed on the phone. Friends describe them as reliable. Colleagues call them driven. Family members may say, “She always has it together.” Yet underneath that polished surface, there may be chronic dread, numbness, exhaustion, shame, irritability, panic, or a steady sense tha