Hello and welcome to the Calmar You podcast. This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge. I'm a coach, a

hypnototherapist, and I'm the author of The Anxiety Solution and Brave New Girl. And this podcast is

all about helping you to become your calmest, happiest and most confident self. Hello, hello. So

today I'm talking about high functioning

anxiety. And this is not a, like a medical term. Your doctor will not diagnose you with high

function anxiety, but it's a term that's often used to describe the type of anxiety that happens in

people who are very high functioning. So if you have high functioning

anxiety, it might seem from the outside that things are going really well. You might be really

successful in your professional life. You might have a personal life that is ticking all the boxes.

But inside, you know, you might be experiencing a lot of anxiety, a lot of stress and tension.

And I'm going to explain in this podcast about the most common signs of high functioning anxiety

and what we can do about them, some things that we can do about them.

So I guess the first thing to know is that, you know,

it's something that maybe from the outside,

people think you're doing really well,

and actually they might praise you

and you might get a lot of social recognition

for the very things that cause you anxiety.

I'm going to talk about those in a minute. Because

inside there might be a lot of self-doubt, a lot of worry, a lot of pushing yourself and putting

a lot of pressure on yourself. That can make life very difficult, even though on the outside it

might seem all rosy. So the first sign of high

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