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Do You Have High Functioning Anxiety?
Anxiety, Feeling better, Quality of life Sherry Shockey-Pope Anxiety, Feeling better, Quality of life Sherry Shockey-Pope

Do You Have High Functioning Anxiety?

You often set you feeling aside or compartmentalize your feelings and you do not where your heart on your sleeve. You are an in-charge type person and often you friends call your “stoic.”  Inside however, that is simply not true, your feelings do get hurt but you push them away because you say to yourself “oh I’m just being a drama queen.”

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What does it mean for me to be “diagnosed?”
Depression, Anxiety, Feeling better, relationships Eric Ontiveros Depression, Anxiety, Feeling better, relationships Eric Ontiveros

What does it mean for me to be “diagnosed?”

Think of a diagnosis as a snapshot of who you are not a life sentence. 

During the course of our lives, it is safe to say that any of us can be identified as having a mental health diagnosis at one point in our lives.  The death of a loved one, job loss, relationship issues are all potential catalysts for concern and they technically may lead to a diagnosis.  This doesn’t mean that we are meant to carry a diagnosis forever or that we cannot recover or live fully functional lives.  A mental health diagnosis is identifiable and agreed upon a cluster of symptoms meant to describe a person’s experience at that moment in their life. 

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Mindfulness For All
Depression, Anxiety, Feeling better Lynn Flewelling, MFTI Depression, Anxiety, Feeling better Lynn Flewelling, MFTI

Mindfulness For All

It is part of mindfulness practice to realize that suffering comes from believing that things should be other than they are in the given moment. If you are suffering in the present moment—oppression, discrimination, hunger, joblessness, etc— this may seem like a cruel statement, but it's actually not. It's solid advice, allowing you to take action and stay safe.

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