What's the difference between anxiety and stress?
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Anonymous
December 28th, 2015 12:19pm
Stress is the way to anxiety and it means when you are feeling fatigued about something which will cause anxiety. Anxiety means when you are anxious about the simplest things for a long period of time for example a day
Stress and anxiety are very similar, though in my opinion anxiety is worse than stress and can be harder to deal with.
The cause of acute stress is distinctly different from the cause of anxiety . Anxiety and stress are often used interchangeably, even though they’re two different experiences.
Stress and anxiety share some of the same symptoms. However, with stress we know what is stressing us out and may be able to fix it. Whereas with anxiety we may not exactly know what you're anxious about in the moment and the different type of reaction to it becomes the problem.
anxiety is it is the process during which a person becomes scared and apprehensive of what lays ahead, and often manifests itself in physical problems like pain, dizziness and panic attacks. Stress is a response to a threat in a situation
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