What's the difference between anxiety and worrying?

Well, according to my understanding, worry is more like a short term, mild, realistic state that is prone to be solved or overcomed easily. While anxiety is a severe mental state which may be caused by nonspecific reasons and tends to affect you more profoundly in the long term and is less prone to being overcome.

Worrying is a human emotion everyone experiences that occurs out of caring for others. There's usually a reason behind the worrying. Anxiety comes on sometimes for no reason and it's nearly impossible to control.

Anxiety affects the body and worry affects the mind. Worry is commonly specific and anxiety is vague.

Worrying is situational. After a little while, it will stop, in contrary of anxiety, that will keep making you feel worrying and stressed for a long while

The definition of anxiety is: a feeling of nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome. While Worrying is: give way to unease; allow one's mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles.

Worrying does not cripple you, anxiety does. So when you feel self stressing more than normal, try assessing what triggers those strong emotions.

Worrying is a temporary discomfort in your chest, one that vanishes after the situation is resolved. Worrying never needs to be diagnosed. Anxiety is a constant thought in the back of your mind, and it comes in so many different forms. While, of course, worrying can come in different forms as well, worry is an instinct that humanity has evolved with and coexisted with for centuries. Anxiety is the primal instinct which we call “worry” taken too far.

Anxiety is constant, it can even have physical side effects. Anxiety includes worrying but there are more symptoms involved such as feeling agitated, restlessness, fatigue, finding it hard to focus, tense muscles, sweating, trouble sleeping, irrational fears and more. Worrying can be linked to anxiety, however, anxiety can be considered something bigger, since it involves more symptoms. Excessive worrying can lead to anxiety, but for an official diagnosis seeking professional help is needed.

Worry is an emotion that comes and goes just like the rest - but coping with anxiety is something that sticks, something that lurks in the back of your mind - and it can feel like a constant battle. Anxiety is not something conventionally rational, so of course it's a lot more difficult for people dealing with it to be able to describe these fears or put them into the usual boxes of emotions of just sad or angry or confused or agitated; but believe me when I tell you - this does not make whatever it is you're feeling any less valid 💛💛

Anxiety is a persistent feeling that can be with you always. You can be anxious over driving or upcoming travel plans ie (flying, train rides). Worrying is short term and it's about a direct situation usually happening now. You can be worrying about the outcome of test but once you get the results the worry stops. Although worry and anxiousness can be present at the same time in some situations they are different feelings. Worrying typically presents itself as self thoughts while anxiety can cause your body to react in different ways like heart palpitations, sweating or shaky hands to name a few.