“High-functioning” depression is not a clinically recognized branch of depression. However, its prevalence has sparked conversations about depression in mental health circles and beyond. “High- functioning” depression feels like faking it without ever making it.
I have spent so much of my time trying to make myself look and act like I am “OK” that when I finally accepted that I needed help, I had no idea how to ask for it.
Constantly pretending to be a way I didn’t feel left me with dozens of emotions I’d spent too long suppressing to even name.
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