As Grimes coos, “girl, you know you’ve got to watch your health” a woman looks you dead in the eye and explains you might be displaying the “four hidden signs” of high-functioning anxiety. The issue ...

Person A is a young adult who has full-time services through a state autism program with goals to improve emotion regulation, safety and daily living skills, and vocational skills. Communication goals ...

A high functioning alcoholic is an informal term that refers to someone who appears to maintain a successful professional and personal life while drinking excessive amounts of alcohol. Drinking is ...

High-functioning adults often look like they’re fine but internally feel anxious, overactive, and unable to relax. Competence is often a longstanding strategy for feeling safe.

Judith Joseph has spent most of her life building an impressive résumé. She is a board-certified psychiatrist, chair of the Women in Medicine Initiative for Columbia University’s Vagelos College of ...

There are a lot of myths and stigmas surrounding obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, but that doesn't make it any less serious of a disorder. It isn't all about extreme tidiness or counting things, ...

On a special episode (first released on May 16) of The Excerpt podcast: Many people have some experience with depression. Often the condition goes away, but what if it doesn't? What if it's something ...

The World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health is a framework for organizing information on functioning and disability. Functioning, as a concept, ...