How Can You Tell if This Is Stress And/Or Anxiety?

Stress and anxiety are not abnormal feelings. How can you identify whether what you're feeling is stress or if it’s anxiety? Can it be both? How do you know? The truth is, these are very common feelings and you’re not alone in feeling them when you’re undergoing a huge challenge or when you’re facing the unknown. This is your body’s way of putting up a fight!    What is stress? This is a normal human response to a change or demand on your body. Stress can cause a physical, emotional, or a mental reaction. Most of us experience stress on different levels and at different intensities. One event might be triggering to one person, but to another it’s a walk in the park.    However, stress can be good for us. We can leverage stress to help us perform and get the job done. In fact, that’s what it’s intended for. Unfortunately, our fast paced world can put this sensor in overdrive. Chronic stress takes physical and mental tolls on our body. Stress can be due to lack of resources or a lack of time to get what you need done. When experiencing this, see what resources you can leverage to delegate it to someone else or to figure out what outside influences you can call in to help you.    What is anxiety? It can be tracked down to fear or nervousness. For example, test taking or even performance reviews can cause a lot of anxiety because our root concern is around fear. Fear of failure, fear of losing a job, fear of not making more money, etc. If you begin to have so much anxiety that you begin to isolate yourself, that’s when you know your anxiety is getting out of hand and it’s no longer helping you, it’s causing you to overcompensate and detract from your sense of self.    Continue Your Growth Journey: Kaminiwood.com