When people say that you're really intelligent and talented and instead of making you feel proud it makes you feel stressed out and guilty somehow... is it just me?

suddenly i don't feel like i'm alone in this anymore.

"Its when answering a text impulsively and thoughtlessly is an act of bravery" oh my god that line is just so spot on

It's exactly like this. But some people think i'm pretending. Some of them think i'm too lazy to live a normal life. Some of them think i'm egoistic. Some of them even think i'm insane. These people are my colleagues, friends, and even my family members. No one ever understand. I only have compassion and understanding from random strangers on the internet, whom i will never see in person. It's really sad. Especially if you live in a country where even medical workers treat people with mental problems like total lunatics. We play life on hard, someone without our problems will never understand that.

When I watched this I started to cry. I never knew something could relate to me so much.

This hits home

Once a college councillor told me that a straight A student couldn't be mentally ill and I was exaggerating. He asked if I was sure the panic attacks I had in secret were not just "feeling a bit worried" because you can't be a high aciever and suffering. I wanted to yell at him that the fact I couldn't miss a class even when I had the flu or the list if extra curricular activities as long as my arm so that I was always doing something because if I stopped I'd drown like a shark was just a symptom not a reason why I was fine. He was not a good councillor.

This was me for years. I cared too much about everything. And then the anxiety turned into depression. Now I don't care enough.

I always have thoughts where no one likes me and everyone thinks I'm a bad friend, it feels like my friends talk behind my back all the time when I'm not there, I always worry I'm going to say or do something wrong and when I do, I keep worrying about it for a really long time. This is why I don't like meeting new people and I'm shy around them. I think I finally found what is wrong with me.

When you feel everything like this and people say because you haven't been diagnosed by a doctor, you don't have it. It's stupidity that runs this generation. Just because a professional hasn't confirmed it because I am to nervous to go see one, doesn't mean I don't suffer from anxiety.

Damn this is accurate. It's so refreshing to know that I'm not the only one whose anxiety manifests itself in such a way.

This was excellent and was very reflective of what I go through on a daily basis.

An important thing for people to know: You may think that someone is rude. You may even call them rude. However, they might not be trying to be rude and they may not want to be rude. Some people have anxiety, making them not do things that you would expect a person to do, making them look rude. Please understand this and don't judge someone for seeming rude. Not everyone who seems rude wants to be rude. I have been called rude so many times for my anxiety and it hurts. Please just consider that someone may not be trying to be rude.

I am a huge fan of this video. As someone who struggles with this, Thanks.

Great video. I understand exactly how you feel.

This video is so spot on. All I could do is cry and watch over and over again.

I get through my anxiety by watching videos like this..

This is exactly the type of anxiety I have. I always feel like I'm going to let people down and that I'm not good enough so sometimes I can't even get myself to do my schoolwork.

This scares me how much I relate to this, I've always tried to push away these things thinking I'm fine and it's nothing wrong because I'm considered a successful "normal" person who has a good life. It scares me that I relate so much....

Wow. That's literally how I've felt all of my life. I'm in tears.

This made me cry, I'm--I can't. This just said everything perfectly

I can totally relate to this! It's amazing to finally have a name for what I've been feeling for the past several years.

I really love this video. I have severe anxiety and also depression. It's very hard and I'm fighting it everyday. Good to have a reminder I'm not alone

Wow. This is so accurate. When feeling like a fraud popped out on the screen I immediately started crying. At one point in my life, a point that I cannot remember anymore, I didn’t feel this way. But now I feel everything I do is wrong and that I am a complete fraud. That I am living a life where people have such high hopes for me and saying that I’ll get very far in life because I am a “determined, skillful person,” meanwhile, every time I even think about my future I cry because I am so worried for myself because everything I do is a mistake and that I am not who everybody says I am. I just.. i don’t know.

Damn, I cried while watching this.

What is the worst... is when you are sitting at a desk and you are supposed to write a report quietly, and then you get a anxiety attack and you need to do something to distract yourself, because if you don't it will turn into a panic attack, except you have no wear to go, and no outlet to let it out, so you have to try to think about something else. This is the worst in high school.

This is exactly what my life is like. I need to show this to everyone I know so that can understand

I just got chills.

I just cried

Yes! High-functioning anxiety is exhausting! Thanks for sharing this. :)

This just opened my eyes to everything, this is my everyday. 😔

This instantly brought me to tears. It’s so hard to deal sometimes.

1:03 "It's silent anxiety attacks hidden by smiles." I feel SO seen. Usually panic attacks are seen as hyperventilation and a really obvious thing whereas I usually cover mine up and don't let it out in front of people and I've always felt so fraudulent and that they aren't REAL anxiety attacks. But this validates me. Thank you.

I feel like I'm not alone having found this.

Oh, I get the "I'm not good enough I'm a bad friend" stuff all the time and i mistook it for social anxiety but I also show some of the symptoms of social anxiety too, but I'm too scared to tell anyone exept my best friend

I'm only 16 years old but when I was 14 a psychologist diagnosed me with anxiety and recommend I be put on meds but my hippie parents took me out of all my counseling and gave me a bunch of self help books and after a year and a half my anxiety had gotten a little bit better but I didn't see the big improvement until I started smoking weed at least three times a week and now my life is great, I have almost no anxiety besides the little minor attacks when I think I've gotten sick or get scared someone is plotting to kill me but they usually only last a few minutes and then I can remind my self "that's crazy, you're fine" and it completely goes away. Some people may say I depend on weed too much but the truth is I don't depend on it at all anymore, smoking weed made me step out of my comfort zone and confront my anxiety head on, it opened my mind and changed the way I view the world and my self. Now if I have an anxiety attack I don't need to smoke a joint to calm me down, I can just close my eyes take some deep breathes and remind myself that I am enlightened, I am better this and it's all over.

There are tears streaming down my face, you put my deepest feelings into words.

This is so accurate and insightful. Thank you for making this.

Thank you for making this video. It's so hard to describe to friends and family. I sent this to my mom and my sisters and now they have a better understanding of what it means

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Speaking about it like this is not gonna make it disappear, but it raises awareness and it helps people who struggle with anxiety on a daily basis to feel better, less alone, less crazy. Once again, thank you

This is my life everyday! Thank you so much for posting this! It gives me so much hope!

I love this! I see so many anxiety videos, posts, articles, that relate anxiety to a racing heartbeat and panic attacks, which IS TRUE. But they barely focus, it seems, on this type of anxiety, this is the one that gets me most. I dont usually get the racing heart or the heavy breathing. It's always this, and to see it put like this makes me feel like I'm not alone.

I have horrible anxiety. It's why I had no girlfriend. Wish I had one, but I've been to shy to talk to anyone or make friends in my new neighborhood I've recently moved into.

Thank you for making this video and letting me know I am not alone in this mental fight.

This is one of the best videos I found to best explain to someone what it's like. I have this and also severe social anxiety. Thank you for this video.❤

mix all that with bipolar as well and you go freaking out nuts, over the smallest things. or eminence panic attacks and racing thoughts leave you awake for long time, then desperate for your body to get so warn out that it makes it self fall asleep, then you finally able to relax. then wake up so tired and the lack of will or fear to wake back up.then when you get enough sleep your ok and able to function slightly normal again. while in your mind knowing and dreading the cycles return. all i can say that has helped me to have more successfull days, was finding my talents, learning new skills and new Hobbes that i enjoying to do, and allow my self the time to relax when i get overwhelmed, and try to pinpoint different triggers that start spiraling me through the cycles all over again.your illness dont define who you are, and the ability to battle through so much of these things, we can become more brave if we allow our self to be and stronger mentally as we are so hyper aware of the things around us and in our minds. always be mindful when you start to notice the changes, to then remind your self and reason with the thoughts and actions you take, and not listen to the self destructive thoughts, i have noticed for my self is when i start to hear the self destructive thoughts. i knew that had to be a trigger, then i allow my self to take time and think through things in a way that i remind my self that the destructive thoughts are not who i am, and i bravely reassert my self that i am not these thoughts that wish to destroy me, and i encourage my self with affirmations and positive distractions to set my mind at ease.

For the longest time I thought I was just weird and that something was wrong with. I've felt alone for so long. I struggle to do the simplest things bc my brain is always thinking and I can't seem to relax for a moment, no matter what I do I always feel the stress in the back of my head. I would often cry bc I didn't know what was wrong w me so I considered my parents didn't need this burden of having to deal w me anymore. I thought I was just useless and didn't deserve to keep living. I had no idea I had this, thank you.

This is the most accurate way of explaining it, thank you.

I keep watching this video because it's the first time in my life I feel like someone else understands me. I want to make these feelings go away but they have haunted me my entire life. I want happiness but all I get is sorrow. I don't know what to do.

This makes me so happy. I've never found anything that describes it so accurately. I've never been able to get out what I'm feeling into words. I cried. Thank you. Thank you so so so so much.

Thank you for making this.

I feel so much alike, but I almost sure I'm don't dealing with anxiety??? I'm sacred now, omg... I mean I bit my nails, I always get nervous, I express my feeling through my art and writing... Like this sounds so much like me

Great video! Thank you for making it

i relate to this on a spiritual level

I love you for sharing this. I go thru both anxiety and depression at the same time. I have people always saying how talented I am a what not but in my head I'm saying no it's just cause I need an outlet for all the shit that goes on in the world withen myself.

This video makes me cry. It hits me so hard whenever I see it because it is almost what I’m like, but just minus the achievements, but keep the expectations of those achievements. This video is phenomenal.

I didnt realize I was crying as I watched this. It just feels so good that somebody else understand. Thank you.

This video was seriously one of the best videos ever made on what having anxiety exactly feels like. To whoever wrote script, thank you for making this.

I want to thank you for this video because it really helped one of our team member realizing what's her problem...knowing the name of the beast, and knowing that is not a unique beast but it's fairy common was.the first step to accept it and live with it in a better way. So, thank you very much!

I just recently learned about high functioning anxiety. I do well at work, in church and with my family. My whole life is perfect on the outside all while I carry the load of perfectionism and fear of mistakes. Im know for being reliable, man of my word, never dropping it the ball. My life is consumed with making sure it all runs perfect. Never being able to sit still and just relax for fear of waisting time and for fear of “losing it all”. Finally simply knowing what it is has lifted a huge weight off my shoulders of always wondering what’s wrong with me.

This is spot on 👌🏻 love this so muh

When the onslaught of negative thoughts showed up in the video I got triggered so badly. This is amazing spot on. I'm glad you made this!

So true! Everyday, I need an outlet for my anxiety issues: go jogging, or dance like crazy in my room, writing diary for an hour...

There's not even a word in my language to say high-functioning anxiety, and yet I have it. I am glad to know English because this video really helped me the last few years.

crap I have all of these

It's exhausting. I am so tired of being afraid all of the time. My mind constructs things to be terrified about. When that seems to be settled - no need to be afraid anymore! - something else pops up. It's never-ending. I'm so used to it but today it is really getting me down. Majorly. I've tried so many things, including trying to simply accept it (my mind won't let me), yet it's here all the time. For anyone else who feels like this, I send you love and understanding.

It's when answering a text impulsively and thoughtlessly is an act of bravery, It hit me🙏

this is much like how i think, except ive lost the motivation to do anything on top of it all. dont eat as much, cant find the energy to do laundry or make my bed, and i lost motivation to do homework too. its frustrating to say the least. now i feel like im complaining...

It feels like I'm alone, and nobody understands but when I see these videos it makes me feel better knowing I'm not crazy and I'm really not alone. I'm not the only one

I almost started crying half way through because this video completely described my life and my anxiety

Yes, and thank you for this.

I cry watching this because it portrays so accurately how it feels to have high-functioning anxiety. Thank you @TheMighty for being a voice for those with mental health issues.

This gave me chills with how much I relate with this

This is what I needed to hear

this really does need more awareness, because this is so true

I thought this was going to be another bad representation of the anxiety, but there are tears in my eyes because every word of this is completely true for me. Thank you for showing the truth in this overwhelming feeling

This is amazing!

wow its crazy how accurate this video is. This is exactly how it feels and it sucks because nobody understands what its like and think its so minor and judge you for it when anxiety is actually taking over my life

I simply cannot get enough of this video. Where could I acquire more information about this specific type of anxiety?

I love this. I really wish people understood what anxiety is. People think about it as something everyone has and they toss then name around so much, people self diagnose themselves and make you believe what you have isn't important. But anxiety sucks, it stops you from doing things and as much as it is mental, it's also physical

Thank you for this

I'm so sorry for all those who suffer...And hope that everyone can find it within themselves, to know that they are good enough. All anyone really needs, is to be good enough for themselves. You can't please everyone in the world. It's not possible. But you can look inside and say; I AM good enough for me.............

This is an accurate description of me, I’m not diagnosed, but I’m too scared to reach out and get help. Because the thoughts of “Nobody will care,” and “You’re going to be wrong about it,” are stopping me

As a person with high functioning anxiety, I relate to this so much. Everything I do my brain fills to the brim. Whenever I tell someone I have anxiety, I start worrying they think I'm a fraud and narcissistic. Whenever I mention my depression I feel very guilty afterwards.

I don't know that I've ever related so deeply to something like this in my entire life

this really hit home for me.

This made me cry..I relate way too hard

I have depression, anxiety, hallucinate, and panic attacks and this is exactly how I feel with my anxiety

So very well said!!!

I'm showing this to my school so they can understand and stop bullying me about my disorder. Thank you.

When the repeded statements started at the start I actually freaked out. I actually threw my head into my legs and closed my eyes. From what I just said, it may be obvious that I have highly functioning anxiety, and it's difficult to cope.

This video is not even 2 minutes long and I am bawling my eyes out

Wow. I never knew something could describe soo perfectly

Story of my life. Seriously though, thank you so much for this video. My teachers and kids at school think i'm crazy because I never stop moving. Whether its tapping my feet, brushing my hand through my hand through my hair, or just scratching my face a lot. At home I always secretly do sit ups, pushups, or 100 side bend things because I always think im too fat. I know Im a sixth grader and im probably just going through puberty but after three years of being bullied by different people it just nails it in your head.

Great video!

Well done! I've been helped by this therapist with a new channel-You Therapy. Her name is Michele and she's experienced and compassionate, which I need. To all suffering with this, I wish you peace!

Trust me, I'm not one of those Tumblr self-diagnosed-with-everything-under-the-sun kids, but this video really hit home for me. I was diagnosed with depression and PTSD as a kid (well, like 12 or so) because of a seriously traumatic event I went through (I'm not going to go into details). My dad pulled me out of therapy way too early because he thought I didn't need it. Flashbacks of the event hit me at random times, and I feel like I cant breath, and my skin feels hot and scratchy, and I just want to tear my own skin off. Or, sometimes, I get these really disturbing images of ripping my own face off, and I cant shake it. My friends all try to help me with my anxiety. If they see me getting really uncomfortable or doing on of my ticks (like scratching the bridge of my nose, or violently picking my nails) they do everything in their power to get me out of the situation. I get extremely anxious about the stupidest things, like the way I walk (I always have to consciously tell myself "heel to toe, heel to toe, heel to toe"), or if I dropped my pencil in class, I'll over analyze it so much, that I'll convince myself everyone is laughing at me. One time, I lost my jacket in the cafeteria, and when I asked some girls if they've seen it, one of them very rudely said "someone probably threw it away." I just said "oh.. um... okay. Sorry for bothering you." And walked away. But, once I was in the hallway, I started crying and I couldn't breath. Luckily a friend was there to help me calm down. I'm usually fine, except when I'm in situations when I have to talk about of think about my traumatic experience. Then I have full blown panic attacks. Theres this one girl who, every time I talk to her, she brings up the incident. And wont let it go. She keeps going on and on about what happened, and she really brings back some stressful memories. Ugh. People can be cruel sometimes. Sorry for the long comment. Congrats if you got through it all!

it's crazy how much i relate to this video.

Like I wasn't sad enough today.. we're now going to address these emotions that are very vibrant in my life, as an illness? Like that makes me feel comfortable, really great.. + being watched right now that's just awesome. I'm gonna lock myself up now in my room

This is so perfect