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What is the difference between anxiety and stress?

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Dr. James Schlichting answered

Specializes in Medical Psychotherapy

Anxiety is when you are fearful essentially, and it becomes resultant in physiological symptoms. When you can isolate a cause that provokes the anxiety state (not always the case) that is the stress, often called in the field a psychosocial stressor. Not everyone responds to stress with an anxiety state. Individuals are wired differently. When anxiety interferes with healthy life, consider help

Answered 3/2/2023

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