What do you actually get from anxiety therapy? Concrete tools — breathing that works, grounding, graded exposure — and how each one earns its keep.

You’re capable, reliable, praised — and privately running on dread. High-functioning anxiety, what it costs, and why ‘functioning’ isn’t the bar.

Stress has a cause and an off switch. Anxiety outlives both. How to tell which one you’re dealing with — and what to do either way.