People often suffer in silence because they don't want to be a burden to others.
adds: “The depression that we know and are able to recognise more looks like feeling and being unmotivated, having a consistently low mood, loss of appetite, apathy. When someone is noticeably down we can associate this to signs of depression. We might think of depression as someone who is unable to get out of bed and withdraws from life experiences.”
So, the question is, what is high-functioning depression, how do we spot it and what should we do if we think we, or someone we know, is suffering with it?“When a person is [suffering with] high-functioning depression, on the outside it can seem that everything is fine. They are able to continue day to day tasks, they still get up everyday and go to work, they can be social and meet up with friends. They can smile and laugh and seem completely fine,” Lizandra tells GLAMOUR.
“They can appear motivated because they busy themselves and keep active, they might even still be working out and heading to the gym.” However, she warns that the danger with high-functioning depression is that people struggling with are often wearing “a mask”: "They present as though everything is okay, but inside they are facing an internal battle. They can struggle with low self worth, possible poor body image, feelings of hopelessness and worthlessness.
Lizandra also adds that people with high-functioning depression tend to not ask for help, they are usually the helper: “They don’t want to be considered a burden on others around them, and so they often suffer in silence. As high functioning-depression isn’t a clinical term it can be somewhat misleading, but is just as serious as any other form of depression.
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