Is It Just Stress — Or Something More?

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We all feel stressed sometimes. When does everyday stress turn into anxiety?

Body

Normal stress is usually temporary. It happens before a test a tough talk or a big change in your life then it goes away once the situation is over. This is your bodys way of dealing with pressure.

Anxiety is different from stress. Anxiety does not go away even when there is no reason to feel anxious. It shows up as worry feeling restless having trouble sleeping feeling tight in your muscles or having a fast heartbeat. For a long time not just a few days. Anxiety can get in the way of your work your relationships and your daily life.

The main differences between stress and anxiety are:

* Stress has a reason anxiety often does not have a reason

* Stress goes away when the situation is over anxiety stays

* Stress helps you get things done anxiety stops you from doing things

* Stress is something you can handle anxiety may need help from a doctor or therapist.

Conclusion

Knowing the difference between stress and anxiety is the step, to getting the right help. Not every bad feeling needs to be treated by a doctor.. If you think anxiety is just stress you might not get the help you need.

As doctors and nurses you will help people figure out if they have stress or anxiety every day.

:speech_balloon: Have you ever thought you had stress when you really had anxiety or known someone who did? Share what you think below!

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Anxiety Management can be learned. Psychiatrists and Psychologists can teach you good techniques to work on anxiety. Psychoeducation also helps us to understand biology and neurology of anxiety

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Anxiety can be managed. Therapies will help you to manage anaxiety.

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This is a crucial distinction! From a clinical perspective, it helps to look at this through the lens of ‘allostatic load’—the wear and tear on the body from chronic stress. When a patient’s nervous system stays trapped in a sympathetic fight-or-flight state without returning to baseline, that physiological accumulation is exactly where temporary stress mutates into clinical anxiety.

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It’s an important awareness, in fact. Often, we might misunderstand it

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Anxiety and stress share a common bridge . When stress overpower anxiety began to kicks in. This can be for a short period of time or it can be at interval till the stress is removed completely.

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Wonderful. I have been talking about stress and anxiety interchangeably all my life. This difference between them speaks volume. I’m sure this will help people who haven’t been able to distinguish between the two.

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Very important to differentiate between stress and anxiety.