High Functioning

High Functioning: Overcome Your Hidden Depression and Reclaim Your Joy by Judith Joseph and Mel Robbins is a compassionate, practical guide to recognizing and treating high functioning depression, the persistent low mood that can hide behind outward success. Blending clinical insight and neuroscience with real-life stories, the book explains common signs, underlying triggers, and why typical coping strategies often fail. It offers clear, evidence-based tools and daily practices—cognitive reframes, boundary-setting, movement and sleep habits, and help-seeking steps—to interrupt negative patterns and rebuild energy, meaning, and connection. Designed for readers who feel stuck despite appearing fine, it empowers change with actionable strategies and hope.