High-functioning anxiety is not an official mental health diagnosis, but it is a term often used to describe individuals who experience significant anxiety while continuing to perform at a high level in their personal and professional lives.

From the outside, people may see you as:

• Successful

• Organized

• Responsible

• Dependable

• Ambitious

• Driven

What they don't see is the constant mental and emotional effort required to maintain that image.

Many women with high-functioning anxiety are operating with an internal level of stress that others rarely recognize.

From the outside, it often looks like successful women have it all together.

They're managing careers, businesses, marriages, households, children, finances, and countless responsibilities. They show up for work, volunteer at school events, support friends and family, and somehow keep everything moving forward.

Yet behind the accomplishments, many successful women are quietly struggling.