What's the difference between anxiety and stress?

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.

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.

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.

Anxiety is the physical symptoms that stress can cause after a long period of time. Stress over time can cause anxiety to build.

Difference between stress and anxiety is that, while stress is a response to a specific stressor, anxiety has no identifiable root.

Anxiety is a consistent persistent feeling that reacts to stress. Stress is what happens when you live.

Anxiety is the foreboding feeling of dread before a situation, whereas Stress is the feeling you have within a situation.

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.

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.

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.

Stress is caused by specific situations all together at the same time, anxiety is an emotion of the human brain.

Now I'm not saying everyone doesn't get anxiety at some time or another, but anxiety is usually a diagnosed "mental condition", although I like to refer to is as something that makes one more unique. But lets look at this as an equation type thing.. stress usually leads to anxiety, so stress+stress+stress=anxiety attack. In my experience anxiety attacks happen from either a trigger or just loads of stress you can't get rid of.

Anxiety is a racing feeling, as if you're desperately trying to escape;stress is a nagging pressure.

Stress is a natural reaction to difficult situations; it tends to last as long as the trigger does. Anxiety is ongoing and often without cause.

Stress is usually directly caused by an idea or event, like feeling like you have too much work to do. It can have physical effects like headaches, fatigue, and overall grumpy-ness. Anxiety has very different physical symptoms than stress; anxiety attacks, hyperventilation, pacing, feeling jittery, nauseated, etc. Anxiety is worrying about what could happen, and often times becoming very fixated on only the negative outcomes. This means that anxiety feels a lot more like fear, while stress often just wears you out.

Anxiety occurs more often and is caused my multiple things in your life. Stress is for a short period of time and is caused by only one or two things.

Stress comes from the pressures we feel in life, as we are pushed by work or any other task that puts undue pressure on our minds and body, adrenaline is released, extended stay of the hormone causes depression, a rise in the blood pressure and other negative changes and effects. One of these negative effects is anxiety. With anxiety, fear overcomes all emotions accompanied by worry and apprehension, making a person a recluse and a bagful of jitters. Other symptoms are chest pains, dizziness, and shortness of breath and panic.

Stress is for example, when you are at a very busy work place and there is a lot going on. But anxiety is if you are, for example, in a room filled with strangers and you feel like they are all staring at you and your heart starts racing. Very similar to being nervous.

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

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.