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High Functioning Anxiety: Symptoms, Causes & Treatment 2023

Blurt It Out

Consulting a healthcare professional, such as a psychologist or psychiatrist, can provide the necessary guidance and support to manage your anxiety effectively. In clinical practice, the term “high-functioning anxiety” is not formally recognized as an official diagnosis. They may come across as having nervous energy.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth Anxiety: An Overview and Future Directions

Society of Clinical Psychology

2015), although exposure use in community clinics remains low (Whiteside, Deacon, Benito, & Stewart, 2016). Both models have somewhat contradictory implications for clinical practice (e.g., Lesley Norris is a fourth-year doctoral student in the clinical psychology program at Temple University working with Dr. Philip Kendall.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

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So, I called my psychiatrist’s office and got an answering machine from an evidently-open urgent care clinic. Who wanted a social media and marketing consultant who’d spent time in a mental hospital? She is now retired but worked as a self-employed social media consultant and freelance writer. Clearly my husband wasn’t.