Stress and Anxiety

1. 2 Responses to “What´s difference (anxiety and stress?) or is it the same?”

2. By Panda on Nov 14, 2009 | Reply

   Stress can come from any situation or thought that makes you feel frustrated, angry, nervous, or even anxious. What is stressful to you might not necessarily stressful to another.

   Anxiety is a feeling of apprehension or fear. The uneasiness feeling that is not always known or recognized, which can add to the distress you feel.

3. By dave w on Nov 18, 2009 | Reply

   simply, anxiety has more of a fear factor about it than does stress. Below is definitions from dictionary.com

   Anxiety -
   1. distress or uneasiness of mind caused by fear of danger or misfortune: He felt anxiety about the possible loss of his job.
   2. earnest but tense desire; eagerness: He had a keen anxiety to succeed in his work.
   3. Psychiatry. a state of apprehension and psychic tension occurring in some forms of mental disorder.
   Stress - 7. Physiology. a specific response by the body to a stimulus, as fear or pain, that disturbs or interferes with the normal physiological equilibrium of an organism.
   8. physical, mental, or emotional strain or tension: Worry over his job and his wife’s health put him under a great stress.

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