High-Functioning Anxiety:When You Look Fine, But Feel Exhausted

There's a particular kind of person who arrives in therapy with the same opening line. I know I shouldn't be complaining. My life looks great on paper. What they describe inside the room is something different. A constant low-grade tension that never fully subsides. The inability to actually rest, even when the calendar finally clears. They've often spent years not understanding why they feel the way they feel, because the language around anxiety doesn't seem to fit them.