Reclaim Your Joy and Overcome High Functioning Depression with Dr. Judith Joseph

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

You’re showing up, doing the work, checking the boxes, but something feels…off. You’re not falling apart, but you’re not really okay either. And you’re certainly not alone. This week on Hello Monday, Dr. Judith Joseph joins Jessi Hempel to name and unpack this experience: high functioning depression. Dr. Judith is a board-certified psychiatrist, researcher, and educator at Columbia and NYU. Her new book, High Functioning: Overcome Your Hidden Depression and Reclaim Your Joy, offers a roadmap for understanding and addressing a kind of mental health struggle that often goes unnoticed—and untreated. Together, Dr. Judith and Jessi explore: • What high functioning depression looks like—and how to recognize it in yourself and others • The five Vs method for healing: Validation, Values, Venting, Vitals, and Vision • The power of naming hard feelings like anhedonia • Why we must treat mental health as proactively as physical health • How small steps can help us reclaim joy This episode is a starting point for anyone who feels stuck in the motions but wants more from their life.

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0:00.0	LinkedIn News
0:02.1	Try going to a doctor and saying, I have blood.
0:08.4	They'll be like, can you get out of my office?
0:10.0	I have people in crisis to treat, you know?
0:12.1	In our healthcare system, we are experiencing this boom in longevity.
0:16.8	It's like, catch the cancer.
0:18.6	No one will say, wait until it's stage four and then come back.
0:20.8	No, no, no.
0:21.4	We're like, prevent it before it spreads.
0:24.0	Why are we not doing that with mental health?
0:28.6	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel and this is Hello Monday.
0:32.4	It's our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing all of us.
0:39.0	Have you ever hit that feeling in your life where you just go on autopilot? Like you're phoning it in. Maybe you're
0:45.9	doing the things that in the past have brought you a ton of joy or sparked your curiosity,
0:50.3	made you feel like you were learning. But instead, it just all feels kind of monotonous.
0:56.6	Well, today we're going to give a name to that feeling. It's called High Functioning Depression.
1:01.6	Our guest is Dr. Judith Joseph. Dr. Joseph has a huge following online.
1:07.1	She teaches at Columbia and New York University, and she has a new book out. Her newest book is titled, High Functioning, Overcome Your Hidden Depression, and Reclaim Your Joy. Gosh, I love how empowering that title is, right? Today, Dr. Joseph is going to talk with us about how we identify high functioning depression in ourselves
1:29.1	and in the people that we love. And then we'll spend a bunch of time on Dr. Joseph's 5V method
1:35.5	for how we can confront that high functioning depression and find our joy, claim it. Because
1:43.2	that's what it's all about. We'll talk about all this and much more right, claim it. Because that, well, that's what it's all about.
1:45.3	We'll talk about all this and much more right after this quick break.
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