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Most people show up to their first counselling session a little nervous, even when they have wanted to be there for months. The unknown does that. You have not done this before, you do not know what the room will feel like, and you do not know what is expected of you....
The phrase "high-functioning anxiety" gets used as if it is a category of person, but it is not a diagnosis. It is not in the DSM. It is a name people give to a particular shape that anxiety takes when it lives alongside getting things done. The reason it can feel...