What's the difference between anxiety and worrying?
LOABalance
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Nov 9, 2015
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Anxiety is the fear of anticipating something negative to happen, even if there is no evidence to support it otherwise. And worrying is the attention on some aspect in life where you have a real reason to be concerned.
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raissaabed
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Dec 2, 2014
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worrying is that feeling that push us to be careful in our decisions ..but anxiety is that feeling which make us afraid to take a decision and never be able to...
rayofhope11
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Dec 2, 2014
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The difference between anxiety and worrying is anxiety is something you notice effets your day to day like. Example: You find yourself calling into work sick to avoid the anxious feelings work brings on.
PowerofNow247
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Feb 14, 2017
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This is hard to answer but there are many differences we tend to experience worry in our heads and anxiety in our bodies. Worry is verbally focused typically while anxiety includes verbal thoughts and mental imagery. There are many other differences.
Anonymous
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Dec 2, 2014
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Anxiety is driven by too much worrying. So anxiety is much wider term than worrying. Worrying is good if it derives force within us to do something which will ultimately result in less worrying, but when worry causes you to not to do and that force turns into pain is what i call anxiety which then makes us do things which never wanted to do
starryRiver83
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Dec 24, 2014
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Worrying is a feeling that everyone goes through at some point in their life. Anxiety, however, is excessive worry, which could affect your work life, your social life, your sleep pattern. It can often be linked to something, such as, for example, social anxiety, which is linked to social contact and therefore can lead to someone suffering this anxiety to feel nervous when they are to talk in front of large groups of people, or to engage in conversation. Anxiety can also result in panic attacks, and will cause someone to almost obsess over the thing causing their anxiety. So if you are thinking about something a lot, if this worry is affecting your every day life, your social and work life, sleeping, etc. If it has led to panic attacks also. Then it is more likely to be anxiety rather than worry.
RalphBG
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Dec 7, 2014
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Worrying and anxiety are similar. The difference is that worrying is just your worrying for something the next day, or anytime, about anything. Anxiety is more serious. It can get you so worried that all you can think about is that event that you are worried about. It could be so bad that you can't stop fidgeting. A solution to this, if you are anxious or worried is to focus on the positive, and say to yourself that it will be over soon. :)
EmotionalBodyguard
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Sep 15, 2015
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Worrying is considering the bad things that could happen and hoping they dont. anxiety is being actively scared of it
Anonymous
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Dec 2, 2014
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Worrying is normally over one or two things and goes away after a while. Anxiety is a consent worry over everything, or many things big or small.
pumpkinspicelatte
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Dec 2, 2014
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Anxiety is a build up of emotion that creates unease because of the outcome, whereas worrying can be a cause of anxiety about potential problems.
Erynn
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Dec 17, 2014
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Anxiety and worrying are pretty synonymous. However anxiety disorders and worrying are quite different. An anxiety disorder is a prolonged struggle with anxieties/worries that adversely affects your day-to-day life. There are several symptoms and signs that a professional will look for before diagnosing someone with anxiety disorder. An anxiety disorder may (often) need therapy and/or medications to be managed and allow the person struggling with it to live a more fulfilling and less painful life.
Amy10
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Dec 21, 2014
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When you are worried you feel like you have control over your worries and it does not affect you usual activities, also it lasts for a certain period of time and you worry only about really relevant things. When you have anxiety, you feel like it is an uncontrollable feeling and you worry about important and not so important things. The worry affects you directly: you feel tired, you cant do your usual activities and you feel worried all the time.
Well, this kinda of summarizes everything. Hope it helps you to understand a little more about it.
Anonymous
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Dec 30, 2014
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Well, anxiety is usually worse, and limits you a lot in your (daily) life. People with anxiety experience heavy reactions on stressful things, like being physically sick and not being able to sleep.
Anonymous
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Aug 17, 2015
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Anxiety is an fear of something unknown that you dream may ruin things around you. Worrying is known and can be avoided if proper support it provided.
bettereverdaay
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Nov 3, 2015
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anxiety doesnt go away and the feeling is very intense. Worrying passes quickly and doesnt occupy your mind
Anonymous
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Dec 28, 2015
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Worrying means to be nervous about something for a short period of time but anxiety means to be anxious everyday for simple reasons
ashmiblue
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Jan 18, 2016
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Anxiety is believing there's an issue with no solution. You feel tremendously stuck.
Worrying is a peculiar feeling that you know would wash away but is geting over you momentarily.
TheListeningLad
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Feb 16, 2016
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From my experience, I'd say the difference is anxiety is also a phsyical sensation as well as a mental one.
WiselyBlue
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Mar 1, 2016
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I think it's a question of time, when your worrying gets a git too long it might leed to anxiety. At that moment it's not just your mind that become tired but even your body has repercussion, cause anxiety become something that doesn't leave you anymore.
Rajnin
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Jul 11, 2016
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anxiety is a physical response to stimuli, worrying is the mind constantly working over the problems.
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