#Counseling for anxiety

[mentalhealthunplugged]

High-Functioning Anxiety: When You’re Successful on the Outside But Struggling on the Inside

But on the inside? You feel tense, overwhelmed, and like your brain never shuts off. That’s the reality of high-functioning anxiety—and it’s more common than you think. You’re the one who always shows up, stays busy, handles the to-do list, and never lets anyone down. You’re juggling work, relationships, family, and a million responsibilities. From the outside, it looks like you’ve got it all together.

What Is High-Functioning Anxiety?

High-functioning anxiety isn’t a formal diagnosis, but it’s a very real experience. It describes people who appear successful, capable, and composed, but beneath the surface are battling:

Racing thoughts and overthinking

Fear of failure—even after success

Perfectionism and procrastination cycles

Trouble sleeping or relaxing

Feeling constantly “on” and emotionally exhausted

People-pleasing and difficulty setting boundaries

Many people with high-functioning anxiety are also neurodivergent, especially women with ADHD who were never diagnosed or supported growing up. Others grew up in high-pressure families or environments where achievement equaled safety and approval.

Why It’s So Easy to Miss

Because high-functioning anxiety doesn’t look like a crisis, it often gets overlooked—even by the person experiencing it. You might assume:

“I just need to get more organized.”

“Everyone feels this way.”

“I’m just being dramatic.”

“It’s not that bad—I’m doing fine.”

But “fine” isn’t the same as fulfilled. If your internal world feels chaotic, you deserve support—even if everything looks okay on paper.

Signs You Might Be Living with High-Functioning Anxiety

✔ You constantly second-guess yourself, even after making a decision ✔ You avoid rest because your brain sees it as “wasting time” ✔ You feel guilty when you say no or disappoint someone ✔ You struggle to enjoy your achievements—they never feel like “enough” ✔ You overprepare, overanalyze, and still feel unprepared ✔ You get stuck in cycles of burnout, then beat yourself up for slowing down

Sound familiar? You’re not alone—and therapy can help you stop surviving and start living more peacefully.

How Therapy Helps

In therapy, we focus on helping you:

Identify and shift perfectionistic thinking

Set boundaries without guilt

Understand your nervous system and regulate overwhelm

Build emotional awareness and self-compassion

Break cycles of burnout and over-responsibility

Explore ADHD traits or undiagnosed neurodivergence (if relevant)

You don’t have to keep carrying the mental load alone. Therapy offers a space to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and learn how to feel safe even when you’re not “doing.”

What Working With Us Looks Like

We specialize in helping adults and teens who are struggling with:

Anxiety, panic, and chronic stress

Executive dysfunction and ADHD

Relationship dynamics and people-pleasing

Burnout from caregiving, parenting, or high-pressure careers

Grief, trauma, and life transitions

We offer both in-person sessions and teletherapy across Texas, Florida, and Virginia—so you can access therapy in a way that fits your life.

✨ EMDR, CBT, and nervous system-informed approaches ✨ Safe space for identity exploration and neurodiversity ✨ Superbill provided for out-of-network insurance reimbursement ✨ No pressure, no judgment—just support

You Don’t Have to Earn Rest

High-functioning anxiety convinces you that rest is lazy, that you’re only worthy when you’re producing, that you’ll feel better once everything is done.

The truth? You don’t need to do more. You need to feel safe doing less.

If you’re ready to feel calm without guilt and confident without the pressure, we’re here.

Let’s Talk

Reach out today to schedule a free consultation -  Www.newpathcounselingandwellness.com

Rockwall Office Location: 1101 Ridge Rd., Rockwall, Tx I Greenville Office Location: 2607 Lee St., Greenville, Tx

[loganslowdown4]

Revisiting Why Is Sleep So Difficult? Couples Counselling

Thomas dropped this gem of a video back in July, what are your thoughts on it? Did he seriously finally make REMILE real/a real possibility??? Ahahahhaha

‘This one hasn’t seen HEAVY sleep since 2017’

Hey guess what year the very first Sleep short came out??

2018 babyyyyyyyyyy 😁😁😁😁😴

OH MY GOD SLEEP HAS THE FUNNIEST F*CKING FACE HERE HE HAS TOO MUCH POWER EVEN OVER PICANI LMAO 🤣

Also this meme is so friggin funny to meeeee

Ahahahhhahaha

This is it

This is the line

Canon event folks 🤣

🖤🩷

It’s Remile I’m saying it’s Remile Remile real folks I’m going crazy lmao 😆😆😆

my boi is adorable 🖋️🩷

THE BITE IM CRYINGGGG

my brain: so is c!Thomas the link across the TS multiverse?

Like is he the same c!Thomas as he is in SaSi and the shorts AND NOW Cartoon Therapy too???

These are the stupid thoughts that sail through my head lol

I am going crackers for split screen

I MISS ITTTTT 😆🖤🤍

SLEEP LEAVING BECAUSE OF ANXIETY WHEEEEEE 😂😂🖤 and that is a continuation on from a short, it really has all been leading to this hdhshdgd

he’s so cute good grief 🖤

And Anxiety having a genuine crush/flirting with Blue Screen is so funny, like legit/potential ‘couples/ships’ in the Thomas Sanders universe genuinely make me wanna kick my feet in the air—

Lastly

Dom was always a snack, this just proves it 😅

🖤

If you guys missed it, I did make a Remile playlist a long time ago hdgdgsggsvs 👇

Hopefully there can be more couples counselling shorts like this in the future! I’d love to see one between Anxiety and Blue Screen later on down the road lmao

[msperfectlydamagedd]

agar ab kisi ne firse bola na ki "pareshan kyu horhi hojayega na" me sar phod dungi pehle aapka fir apna

[mustangs-flames]

Started medication today. Hopefully things start evening out again soon.

[spacetimeaccordionfolder]

It says something that both of my conservative christian parents in their mid/late 50s told me this week that they think I need to start therapy/counseling or at least see about getting anti- anxiety medication.

[lyfsmile]

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[wyn-n-tonic]

I'm up late considering The Horrors because JFK's busted ass, worms for brains having ass fucking nephew just casually dropped he wants to open 'wellness farms' for disabled people and I'm over here having done my thesis on linguistics used in propaganda to justify genocide ready to punch a wall like a maladjusted white man whose football team just lost an inconsequential game.

What's next? We'll get an announcement that they'll assign special doctors to the farms to 'test' our 'progress'?

Also the orange oompa loompa, baboon ass having bitch wants to convene a council that can purge generals??? CLOSE ENOUGH, WELCOME BACK NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES!!!!!!!!!

[starrytoya]

every day my brain just keeps going "i want to go home" even when I am, quite literally, at home

[drrksmhcc]

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[thismoleculeisacomedian]

I *finally* heard back and was accepted into my graduate program of choice, which means that now I can go back to being a functioning human being who is not riddled with overwhelming anxiety again 🥳

[procrastinators-anonymous]

I finally managed to talk to a group of people about my struggles, and it honestly felt really good. Im so used to only giving people bits and pieces of information, it was like a weight briefly lifted to have people actually wanna know and ask questions. Now, I have a counselor who’s going to email me so we can discuss planning and solutions regarding this problem. For the first time in a while, I have genuine hope.

[mancinigia]

beyond the façade:

In the quiet hours before dawn, when shadows linger like unspoken doubts, a man sits with the weight of expectations, etched into the furrows of his brow.

He learned early that tears are for weakness, that vulnerability is a dangerous dance. So he tucks away his fears, beneath layers of stoic resolve.

In the labyrinth of masculinity, he navigates the narrow corridors, where emotions are stifled echoes, and tenderness is a fragile thing.

He measures himself against rigid ideals, carved from the stone of generations past, struggling to reconcile vulnerability with the armor he’s been taught to wear.

He wrestles with the silence that suffocates, where words are sparse as desert rain, and the ache of loneliness echoes in the hollow spaces of his heart.

He carries the weight of unspoken burdens, swallowed like bitter pills, in a world that measures his worth by the hardness of his edges.

But beneath the facade of strength, lies a soul that yearns to breathe, to shed the mask of invulnerability, and embrace the fullness of his humanity.

For he is not just the sum of expectations, nor the embodiment of stoic resolve. He is a mosaic of complexities, where fragility and strength intertwine.

In the quiet moments of introspection, he dares to redefine what it means to be a man, and finds solace in the beauty of his flaws.

~ Gia Mancini

[agentc0rn]

Life update: Feeling slowly better as we speak!! Im back in drawing mood again. Thank you guys for all the kind words, patience, understanding and support!! :)

[vaniliens]

Mother has requested me to look through a medical counselling thing for my mental illness(es) & the first thing i see is "Do you need help with your sexuality?" with the ♀️♂️ symbols for the logo