You may have suspected that someone has high functioning anxiety and this article will give you the 7 signs that your intuition was right about them. Hiding anxious symptoms is a skill that the high-functioning yet anxious person has mastered, unless you know what to look for.
7 SIGNS OF HIGH FUNCTIONING ANXIETY
1. HIGHLY DETAIL-ORIENTED
Someone who has high functioning anxiety is usually hyper focused on the details; planning, organizing, strategizing, and working to make things as perfect as possible. This is because a person with anxiety often feels out of control. The parts of life that they can control then give them a small sense of stability and control over their environment.
2. THINK AHEAD LIKE A CHESS PLAYER
Planning several moves ahead is a key technique of the best chess players, and it’s also a skill of those with high functioning anxiety. Planning is one way to try to manage symptoms of anxiety because the more that can be known, the fewer scary unknowns there are.
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