Your life isn't some trial to grin and bear.  Smiles on the outside and storms on the inside.  Being a high achiever in your job and life does not have to cost you your peace of mind.   

High-Functioning Anxiety?

Doctors and specialists use the term 'anxiety' as a catch-all diagnosis for certain types of problems that are hard to otherwise categorize.  The condition has diagnostic criteria like 'excessive worry' and 'significant distress' and 'muscle tension'.  Anxiety is a hazy word, yet with so much power.  And, it's thrown around casually...even absorbed casually. 

Once you know a few things about anxiety, you will agree that, while the symptoms and signs are real, using them as criteria for a diagnostic label is just a way to bide time.  The label accomplishes nothing but satisfy a longing to categorize an unpleasant experience. 

It's human nature to give things a name. But a name does not a solution make.

Relief begins from knowing what the heck anxiety is.

Anxiety is fascinating feedback about how your nervous system is adapting to your environment - your physical, chemical and mental environment.  If you want to understand and eliminate the anxiety experience from your life, first you must know what causes it.  

That's where I come in.

I have a knack for making anxiety understandable, and also a process for stopping it. What I offer is sensible and simple, and I have been doing it for more than 20 years with people just like you.  The only difference is, they have relief, and you don't, yet.

The focus here at DONE WITH ANXIETY is something that is termed High-Functioning Anxiety.  That's not even a diagnosis (available in the pantheon of mental health disorders), yet, anyway. It's more of a term that people use when they want to escape the diagnosis of, well, anxiety.

The truth is, I help people with all kinds of anxieties. And, I've worked with thousands of high achievers who just wanted nothing more than to be the boss of their brains.

High functioning anxiety is a term that is gaining popularity to describe a long list of anxiety-like feelings and behaviors experienced by high-achievers. (I bet there are some Big Pharma marketers planning a new campaign to sell a new, bespoke high-functioning anxiety medicine that will target the high-achievers of the world...and will have the pricetag to prove it.)

If you were told you have high-functioning anxiety, or you were 'diagnosed' with the condition "anxiety", you might believe you fit into this category of 'mental disorders'. You may believe there's something wrong with you...that your experience is inevitable....even unstoppable.

Nonsense. Do not believe it. Not yet, anyway. 

Now, don't get me wrong. There are people who have anxiety, and their condition is so out of control that they are not even in good enough shape to get out of bed, let alone to learn something new. They don't belong on this page. But, then, I don't believe that's the majority of people who have "it".

There's no denying the anatomy and physiology of stress. That stuff is real.

But the origin of the anxiety? That's another story. You're not a hapless victim to life's natural stresses.    

Anxiety.  It describes the end-result of being under pressure...and stressed on the outside and inside.  Maybe you don't even know what it means?  So, instead of finding out, are you willing to accept the label? ...and keep struggling, or - worse - suffering?

I am here to tell you to STOP.  Here is the truth:  We will turn that label sideways. And get rid of it.

You just need a little assistance.  To be turned in the right direction.  That's my job.

Your job is to do something different.  Why not do that right now?