The Importance of Being High Functioning

"I am not proud of the mental struggle at all. I'm a little embarrassed about it, but I can't ignore it anymore," she says. "It's like you're a therapist to the world 10 hours a day." She describes herself in an article as 'a high functioning, slightly broken human' A lot of folks in this field fit that same category: creative people who are empathetic and outside themselves.