What's the difference between anxiety and stress?
MonBon
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Sep 11, 2014
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Stress can cause anxiety, and anxiety can cause stress. The difference, I suppose, in how we deal with it and how it affects us. Stress can cause us to work harder and improve in small quantities, but even small amounts of anxiety can render us helpless, and that's one of the scariest differences, I think.
sminks
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Sep 11, 2014
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Stress and anxiety are different because stress is something that can be used as a great motivating power. Stress is your mind being preoccupied with situations in your life, job, family, etc. Anxiety becomes a form of stress that can be unhealthy: for me it's often a precursor to panic attacks. Anxiety leaves me feeling very overwhelmed, nervous, or tired. Stress just makes me preoccupied.
LeeleeRose
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Oct 29, 2014
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Stress occurs with everyone, and happens when there is a problem or something interrupting or affecting your life. Such as a test, a lot of homework, or fighting with friends or family. Anxiety is more on a regular basis and is individualized depending on what makes you anxious.
Jessi1990
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Jun 3, 2015
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Anxiety is the physical symptoms that stress can cause after a long period of time. Stress over time can cause anxiety to build.
Anonymous
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Nov 7, 2014
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Difference between stress and anxiety is that, while stress is a response to a specific stressor, anxiety has no identifiable root.
Courage
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Oct 26, 2014
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Anxiety is a consistent persistent feeling that reacts to stress. Stress is what happens when you live.
DaleN
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Nov 3, 2014
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Anxiety is the foreboding feeling of dread before a situation, whereas Stress is the feeling you have within a situation.
Apanda
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Dec 7, 2015
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Great question! According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, "stress is a response to a threat in a situation. Anxiety is a reaction to the stress". Basically, that means stress is how you feel when things aren't going well, where anxiety is the worry that things might not go well.
FlyingFreeFall
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Sep 12, 2014
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Stress is generally produced by one's circumstances in life. Anxiety can happen with no trigger, and can also be triggered by basically anything. Stress is usually not, or need not be, chronic, as anxiety unfortunately often is.
RayneCloud
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Oct 24, 2014
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Anxiety will rip you apart slowly and kill every happy thought you have ever had, push away the people you love and leave you alone. Stress will eat you up from the inside and make you lash out at the people closest to you but it eventually goes away.
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