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What Is High-Functioning Mental Illness? Hidden Struggles Behind Success
The phrase high-functioning mental illness is not a formal psychiatric diagnosis. You will not find it listed as a clinical category in the DSM-5. Still, it captures something many clinicians, families, and patients recognize immediately: a person can appear capable, polished, productive, even impressive, while quietly struggling with significant symptoms of anxiety, depression, trauma, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, or other mental he