Anxiety is a very debilitating condition. Whether it's for rational or irrational reasons, fear can shut you down mentally and physically.
While anxiety is oftentimes hard to control, we still have to pull through to attend to life and its responsibilities. Often, this very reason is what keeps anxious people's minds in constant motion and off their anxiety.
We may seem and feel crazy, but we've managed to find a way to productively release it through our Type A personalities. Here are some of the traits of the girl with high functioning anxiety:
1. Perfectionist. You never understand people who half-a** anything. You put all your blood, sweat, and tears into everything you do and will not rest until it is up to your high standards.
Everything you do is a representation of yourself and you always present yourself with your best foot forward.
2. Always on time. Fashionably late is not in your vocabulary. You show up early all the time because running late gives you anxiety.
Your mind is racing with thoughts about what will happen if you are late, how people will feel, what you will miss, and you would just much rather be too early than deal with that stress. You are always in a hurry and on the move.
3. Workaholic. When it comes to work or school, you work pretty d*mn hard.
This often the result of you being a perfectionist, loving your job/major, and to escape your anxious thoughts. We often don't like to be alone with our racing minds and drowning into work or hobbies is a productive escape.
Plus you're extremely nervous about what would happen if you didn't work hard.
4. Passionate. When you have a knack for something or find something you are passionate about, you become the master of your craft.
Since you're a perfectionist and since you put all your soul into something when you like it,you spend a lot of time on it and excel at a rapid rate.
5. Lists. Your life needs to be in order for you to function, and you do this through lists and calendars and reminders.
You probably have lists for lists for lists, and no it's never too much. Everything needs to be written down and planned out.
Even if plans change along the way, at least you have a plan to fall back on and guide you.
You worry about forgetting something or having things not go according to plan, so you write it all down. Including all backup plans.
6. Always busy/full schedule. You hate feeling like you are lazy and just floating aimlessly with no plan. You have a set schedule and you follow it.
You can always adjust as you go, but you need to have a baseline.
There is no better feeling than being productive and crossing something off you to-do list or bucket list. It's your hit, and you need to have it.
Plus being busy all the time serves as a distraction from racing thoughts, but at least you release this in a productive outlet.
7. Team no sleep. While many people enjoy sleeping for hours on end and taking sporadic naps, you opt out of excessive sleep.
You would much rather be awake and doing something productive or doing something you enjoy.
Sleeping often feels like a waste of precious time, but you unfortunately need it to survive and be productive the next day so you make sure you sleep enough to function.
8. People-pleaser. You hate it when you make people unhappy or disappoint them.
While at the end of the day you will make whatever decision is best for you,you take other people's feelings and opinions into consideration.
Even when you stick to your guns, you still have that nagging feeling deep down knowing it made someone unhappy.
9. Physical ticks. Because you are nervous and anxious inside, you develop subtle"ticks."
Whether it's nail biting, an eye twitch, tapping your foot,or cracking your knuckles, you have a habit that you usually don't realize you do until someone points it out to you.
These habits are hard to break and once you break one, you're onto the next one.
10. You love hard.Falling in love is scary as f*ck and you love really hard.
Your feelings for someone travel deep and you're scared to death of having your heart broken, especially when you've already been taken advantage of in the past.
You worry about every little detail and are paranoid about a whole bunch of scenarios when you like someone. But when you find someone who will treat you right, you love unconditionally with no limits. Because you know no other way.
