What's the difference between anxiety and just being nervous?
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Being nervous about something is definitely natural, Though with anxiety there is just a little more to it. Many symptoms of anxiety follow as excessive worry, sleep problems, irrational fears, muscle tension, chronic indigestion, and many more symptoms. If you feel you are experiencing these anxiety problems I encourage you to consult a doctor.
Anxiety turns out as a more severe condition than "plain nervousness". Anxiety expresses a generally more chronic nature, and defeinitely heavier symptoms, bringing impairments to one's skills and abilities to get things done. Anxiety prevents you from taking important decisions, or makes you hasten towards unsure ones, and consumes you all along the way, while being simply nervous tends to be a shorter and lighter condition. Anxiety will affect your sleep, your hunger, your social interactions, your productivity and your health as a whole as it persists, while nervousness will pass quicker and leave less (or lighter) remnants.
Anonymous
September 20th, 2015 6:12am
"'nervous is when the person is worried about something" and 'anxiety when the person is troubled by disturbing suspense."
Nervousness its a primitive adaption to possible danger, anxiety is fear or a feeling of unease that has as hard to find root cause.
Anonymous
September 26th, 2015 12:40am
Nervous mean you feel worried or shy about something.
Anxious mean you really impatient or exicited
Anonymous
September 26th, 2015 11:23pm
Anxiety is much worse than being nervous. When you are nervous you heart just beats a little faster than normal. Anxiety is having a panic attack or something related to one.
Everybody experiences worry in their life, however when the worrying becomes extreme to the point of having a panic attack and also happens often it becomes anxiety.
Anonymous
October 21st, 2015 10:46pm
While you can be nervous about some things, such as giving a speech infront of a class, or talking to someone new, anxiety is different. With anxiety, you are almost always nervous and are far more susceptible to panic attacks. You feel like everyone is watching you, judging you and like you stand out from everyone else. You want to impress everyone, and get nervous over whether or not you've done enough or what sort of impression you've left. Anxiety tends to always be there somewhere in your mind, whereas, being nervous is over after a while and only happens occasionly
Imo being nervous is typically about a certain situation, person, etc. Anxiety is being nervous and upset about everything.
Anxiety is the clinical term for worry, nervousness or unease about a certain outcome. Being nervous is more natural as it is a person's response to a stimulus in the outside world. Anxiety tends to be caused by internal fears some of which are irrational.
With anxiety you're nervous all the time about everything. With nervousness it's just before speeches or homework projects.
Nervousness and anxiety can be very much the same, but anxiety can also lead to panic attacks, and hyperventilation.
The anxiety is an unwanted fear, that is fear without a stimulus or fear that is found to be irrational by the majority. Now nervous is being tensed of something that has a gr8 possibility of happenig
I think they both come hand in hand really, anxiety can make you nervous, and being nervous can raise your anxiety so you just have to tackle them both.
Anonymous
January 6th, 2016 9:02pm
The difference between anxiety and just being nervous is that when you are having anxiety, it is not alway about something logical. You can know that you have reason to be scared of a spider, but your body literally think it's dying so you're in high alert mode, even though you know you are not. When you're nervous you usually have a thing like a test you're afraid to fail, but you know you won't die from failing it.
Nervousness is less impacting, overall, than anxiety is. If you were to say nervousness is a slight fluttering of the heart before or during a situation, for example, than anxiety is your heart hammering in your chest simply at the thought of the situation (even if the situation isn't present.) Anxiety is in effect a more serious kind of nervousness that can have very physical effects including the way breathe and how your heart beats. It also typically fogs the mind and creates a "flight or fight" response throughout the body, which impacts rational thinking.
Anonymous
January 6th, 2016 3:18pm
Anxiety usually comes back repetitively and being nervous is usually only one time. Anxiety also have make you have a mental breakdown while being nervous does not.
Anonymous
January 6th, 2016 7:50am
I think that nervousness is a type of anxiety. Everyone gets some type of fight or flight feeling in onces life.
"I hear anxious as connoting someone who worries a lot, where as nervous connotes a person who is easily disturbed or distressed. I think you can generally use them interchangeably, but if you did want to make a fine distinction, the anxious person is more reacting to internal fears, the nervous person is reacting more to the outside world."
Anxiety is something that happens often. Being nervous, not so much. Anxiety is far far more severe.
Anxiety is a disorder in which you can't control how nervous you get, I have anxiety and when I am supposed to do speeches in front of my class, I get sweaty palms, light-headed, and sometimes I feel like I'm going to pass out or I feel super nauseous. just being nervous is when you are thinking too hard about something and are worried about the outcome.
Being nervous happens to everyone in common situations like public speaking, and usually happens before the event occurs, and the person will usually feel better once it's over.Anxiety makes someone feel intense and irrational fear, and usually involves symptoms including and increased heart beat, sweating, trembling and nausea.
Anonymous
January 3rd, 2016 2:25am
Nervousness is a natural human response but anxiety could result in panic attacks or avoidance. Nervousness is a very mild form of anxiety.
Anonymous
January 2nd, 2016 10:11pm
I am not an expert but anxiety is a troubling disorder, while nervousness, is a (temporary) feeling.
Anonymous
January 2nd, 2016 9:17pm
With anxiety, you feel like you can't function. You feel scared and you can even have panic attacks. You will know if you are just having a normal case of nervousness or if you are having a case of anxiety. Anxiety can be really extreme and nerve racking.
Anxiety is nervousness on another level. Sometimes Anxiety can lead to panic and can just paralyze you. Everyone gets nervous, but not everyone has Anxiety. If you feel you have anxiety on a regular basis you should speak to your doctor or health care professional.
Anxiety is a physical force stopping you from doing certain things. its the difference between thinking:
Oh man, going on the bus today is really going to suck ...why me? there's too many people
and
I CAN'T GO ON THE BUS TODAY! I HAVE SCHOOL/ WORK BUT I CANT DO IT I CANT DO IT!
Anonymous
December 30th, 2015 6:48pm
Anxiety is more of a long term thing it doesn't just come and the go and in some cases it is more extreme than just being nervous.
From my own experience, anxiety comes more as a general feeling of unease, and it can be without any clear direct reason. It's more a feeling of helplessness, while being nervous is mostly apprehensions.
Anonymous
December 31st, 2015 3:23am
The difference between anxiety and common nervousness is that anxiety is more fear than nervousness, which is mostly hesitancy to try something new. Example: Anxiety would be that you are afraid of skydiving because you may get hurt, whereas nervousness would be you don't want to skydive because its too scary.
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