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Stress vs. Anxiety

Tan Jia Qi

Updated: Aug 4, 2022

Do you know there are a few differences between stress and anxiety?😨


Anxiety is a feeling of fear, worry and dread, and it may not have identifiable trigger. 😮‍💨It is your reaction to stress. Anxiety will cause panic attacks and specific form of anxiety.😱


As examples for anxiety, extreme fear of public speaking or meeting new people. 😟Anxiety is basically causes problems that lasts for at least 6 months. The feeling of anxiety will not be distinguished even after the public speaking. 😵‍💫


While for stress, it is a feeling of overwhelmed and it will cause people burnout, but generally stress responses to an external cause, it will go away once the problem is solved. 🙆🏻‍♀️


For example, a tight deadline of assignments or having an argument with friends are some common situation for stress.💔


Figure 1: Differences between stress and anxiety


Both stress and anxiety will have the same feeling of heartbeat increases, breathing increases and diarrhea. 😵


Some of the symptoms for stress are

- loneliness

- dizziness

- anxious thoughts

- moodiness

- anger


On the other hand, here are some symptoms for anxiety

- restlessness

- nervousness

- sweating

- dread

- tenseness


Checkout the link below to learn more about the differences between stress and anxiety😉⬇️


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