Many people have anxiety and stress but are unaware of what they are. It can be hard determining which one you have, if not both.
Anxiety and Stress can be good, it can help us stay focused and achieve our greatest goals. However, it’s not good when they negatively affect us.
- Stress comes first.
- Anxiety is a reaction to stress.
How Stress Starts
According to google stress is: “pressure or tension exerted on a material object.”
Look below to see which stage of stress you think attributes to you. Whether you fall into any of these categories we want to help you have a healthy amount of stress in your life.
Acute Stress: There is short-term, acute stress. Acute stress is normal, it is usually when something in the past or future is causing us to feel pressure or tension. Stress is removed once the event is over/resolved. Acute stress is only normal until it repeatedly happens.
Episodic Acute Stress: There is episodic acute stress. This is the next stage following acute. This is when repeated stress starts affecting how you act in your life. If you are becoming negative or tense towards others this is when you need to take a step back and make a change.
Chronic Stress: Chronic stress is what we want to avoid. Chronic stress is long-term and can become unnoticeable by you and others. This is when the effects of stress are prone to us and it’s almost impossible to fix the way we think.
The three stages of stress were found at Medical News Today.
Here is a helpful website to see what Stress Symptoms, Signs, and Causes you have.
When Does Anxiety Come In?
According to google anxiety is: “a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.”
When you are stressed about a situation or an event you then can start to become nervous. This is when anxiety comes into play. Anxiety occurs when you start to ‘freak out’ about something you have tension or pressure on. For instance, your hands get sweaty or you start to think of everything that could go wrong. Just like the three stages of stress, anxiety can be minor or severe.
Go to this website if you want to learn more about Anxiety Symptoms, Causes and Diagnosis.
Our Goal
Our main goal for you guys is to determine whether anxiety and stress play a part in your life. If it does and you want to eliminate some or all of it, in the next few blogs we will be discussing ways to help!
Nothing's wrong with change. 