Are you an overachiever or just a person with high-functioning anxiety?

'Work until your account looks like a phone number', 'Thrive and repeat', 'I am a hustler', all of this sounds great, right? Until you actually start working on it. Well, as they say, every coin has two sides, it implies on a person who is an overworker too because along with success and financial growth, comes high-functioning anxiety.

So, know what it is; what its signs are and how you can deal with it.

What is high-functioning anxiety?

High functioning anxiety is a term that is very similar to mental health diagnoses like workaholism, perfectionism, and type A personality.

When it comes to anxiety, you do realise the feeling of dread and uneasiness that comes with a crisis at work or in life. However, in high-functioning anxiety, you aren't held back at all in terms of work and life in major ways.

In such a situation, a person might face restlessness, have trouble sleeping or unwanted thoughts, feel the heart pounding and face other uncomfortable symptoms of anxiety which aren't always that noticeable.

People with high-functioning anxiety are not the ones who crumble under pressure. Instead, they go an extra mile to meet deadlines, be overproductive and are always on their toes, but along with it, they are constantly anxious about their work and will go beyond expectations to solve any evasive problem by hook or by crook.

How do you deal with high-functioning anxiety?

Therapists and clinicians have identified restlessness and insomnia among others, as the signs of high-functioning anxiety. After you've figured out the signs, a therapist or mental health professional can help in teaching the coping mechanism.

Experts also say that those who deal with high-functioning anxiety need to see what is important to them other than work. They should prioritize things that they enjoy rather than anxiety making them do things.