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The Anxiety Chicks

228. Unmasking 'Laziness': The Hidden Truths of High-Functioning Anxiety

The Anxiety Chicks

Cloud10

Mental Health, Education, Alternative Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7832 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In this powerful episode of The Anxiety Chicks Podcast, Alison and Taylor tackle the truth about laziness, mental health, and high-functioning anxiety. We break down the harmful stereotypes that label burnout, depression, and rest days as being “lazy” — and share personal stories about what’s really going on beneath the surface. You’ll learn: The difference between true laziness and mental health fatigue How high-functioning anxiety and depression can hide behind a “put together” appearance Why your brain and body need rest — and how to give it without guilt Simple ways to redefine productivity and embrace self-care If you’ve ever judged yourself for not “doing enough,” this episode will help you release the shame and find balance in your mental health journey. 📌 Rate & Review The Anxiety Chicks on Apple Podcasts & Spotify — your reviews help more listeners find us! 🌐 Connect With Us: ⁠⁠@theanxietychicks⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠@theanxietyhealer⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠@health_anxiety⁠⁠ ✨ Taylor’s Anxiety Healing Tools & Resources: ⁠⁠peakofpanic.com/collections/all⁠⁠ 📚 Order The Anxiety Healer’s Guide: ⁠https://theanxietyhealer.com/books⁠ 🧰 Alison's Free Resources, Coaching & Healing Toolkit: ⁠⁠www.theanxietyhealer.com⁠⁠ 🎥 Watch Full Episodes on YouTube:www.youtube.com/@anxietychicks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.6

Hi everyone. Welcome back to the anxiety chicks podcast. I'm Alison Sopanara. And I'm Taylor.

0:58.4

And we're so excited to be back with you today. We have another great episode for y'all. First, I want to say thank you, everyone, for subscribing and writing us a review. We really appreciate it. We're always looking for more, though. So if anyone

1:11.8

can help us out with that, that'd be great if you really enjoy our podcast, mostly because we

1:16.8

really want to get the podcast out to other people. And I think the more people that we can reach out to

1:21.8

and we can help, it just warms my heart. So yeah, share with some friends, subscribe to us,

1:27.0

review us, and that'd be awesome.

1:29.2

Thank you. All right. So we're going to get into our topic today. This is actually something that

1:34.7

is near and dear to my heart because I feel like this happens to me a lot. So a lot of times,

1:41.7

Taylor, I want you to chime in, but a lot of times I wake up or it's like a weekday or a weekend, whatever.

1:48.3

And I really just like don't feel like doing anything. And it's not because I'm like lazy, right? And I think there's this big like misconception that when you're depressed or even when you're

2:02.7

anxious and you might not look anxious, I'm doing air quotes, you guys on YouTube, that, you know,

2:07.8

you're just lazy and that you're not motivated and that you just like don't like, what's wrong with her

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