Anxiety or Stress?

Do you know the difference between having an anxiety disorder and feeling stressed?

The main differences between anxiety and stress are:

- anxiety is usually short-termed

- stress may last for much longer - weeks, months, or even years

- anxiety is a worrying feeling of fear or apprehension

- stress is a response to a threatening situation, increasing adrenaline, called the
"fight or flight" hormone

- anxiety disorders are a group of psychiatric conditions including generalized anxiety
disorder, specific phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder and social phobia

- stress can come from anything that makes you feel angry, frustrated or nervous

- anxiety leaves you feeling unable to cope, worthless, unable to be logical, feel like
fainting or running away

- stress puts you in the 'defend and protect' mode making you stronger, faster and
results in doing things by instinct