{"id":72651,"date":"2020-06-17T16:45:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T16:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/72651"},"modified":"2020-06-17T16:45:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T16:45:27","slug":"stress-anxiety-and-worry-anxiety-skills-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/72651","title":{"rendered":"Stress, Anxiety, and Worry: Anxiety Skills #2"},"content":{"rendered":"What's the difference between stress,\nanxiety, and worry? And why does it matter? Most people talk about stress, anxiety\nand worry interchangeably as if they're the same thing. For example: "my test\nreally stressed me out. I was so worried about it." or "I'm so worried about this\nupcoming performance that is making my stomach hurt." Now the lack of\ndifferentiation between these different aspects of anxiety leads to difficulties\nin knowing how to resolve the effects of them so today we're going to talk about\nthe difference and why it matters.

Worry is the thinking part of anxiety\nit happens in our frontal lobes the part of our brain that plans and thinks and\nuses words and it has to do with thoughts like "Is she mad at me?" or "what's\ngoing to happen at my upcoming performance?" Now we humans have developed\nthis part of our brain for important reasons. Worry helps us solve complex\nproblems by thinking about them, perhaps over and over again. But if worry becomes\ndistorted, compulsive, or stuck into a repetitive cycle then we can develop\ndisorders like depression and anxiety. Now stress on the other hand is the\nphysiological response to fear- so it's what's going on inside of our bodies\nwhen we're reacting to something that's perceived as threatening or dangerous.\nIt's the fight, flight freeze response.

It's rooted in the reptilian brain. It's instinctual and unconscious. Stress serves a perfect function in helping us\nto escape real threats for example the sweating that comes along with stress\nhelps us stay cool or the adrenaline helps us perform in situations where we\nhave to run away or fight off a physical threat. However if stress becomes chronic\nand remains unresolved it can have serious consequences in our body: high\nblood pressure, heart disease, cancer and chronic illness are all associated with\nstress. Anxiety is the intersection of these two reactions the thinking and the\nbiological response. It's rooted in the limbic system and it\nhas to do with this feeling of foreboding or dread like something bad\nis going to happen. Snxiety helps people be watchful for\ndanger but if it dominates our lives it can make it hard for us to feel joy and\nto move forward in the direction of our values. If we want to learn to manage our\nanxiety we need to learn to tailor our interventions to the different aspects\nof stress. So in order to manage our worry we need to target those thoughts\nwith cognitive interventions-changing how we think and changing what we're\nconstantly imagining and visualizing in our minds.

And if we want to change the\nstress response we need to take a bottom-up approach incorporating our\nbody's reactions and responses into interventions that change those\nreactions and responses into a healthy way. The first step of emotion management\nis awareness. Start to pay attention to what it feels like when you're having an\nanxious response. Is it rooted in your mind? are you having thoughts or\nimagining some future catastrophe? or is it rooted in your body? are you having\nthese physiological reactions like an upset stomach or a sweaty hands? As\nyou start to pay more attention to these reactions and gain more awareness around\nthem you'll develop greater abilities to learn how to respond to these these\ninstinctual reactions in a more helpful way. See if you can distinguish between\nthe two aspects of anxiety- the worry and the stress maybe even spend some time \nwriting about it.

And stay tuned to this channel for my next videos on how to\nregulate each of those aspects of anxiety. I hope this was helpful and thanks for watching Take care!.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What's the difference between stress, anxiety, and worry? And why does it matter? Most people talk about stress, anxiety and worry interchangeably as if they're the same thing. For example: "my test really stressed me out. I was so worried about it." or "I'm so worried about this upcoming performance that is making my stomach … Continue reading Stress, Anxiety, and Worry: Anxiety Skills #2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":72652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,5,781,4771,409],"tags":[696,37579,42936,35259,40452,43550,43549,43492,43494,43551,43552,953,42587,957,960,5696,965,43497,43553,34597],"class_list":["post-72651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety","category-causes-and-prevention","category-crime-justice","category-disasters-accidents","category-health","tag-anxiety","tag-anxiety-disorder-treatment","tag-anxiety-management-techniques","tag-cbt","tag-coping-mechanisms","tag-coping-skills-for-adults","tag-coping-skills-for-anxiety","tag-coping-skills-for-depression","tag-coping-skills-for-kids","tag-coping-skills-list","tag-coping-skills-worksheets","tag-depression","tag-managing-anxiety","tag-mental-health","tag-ptsd","tag-stress","tag-therapy","tag-treating-anxiety","tag-treating-anxiety-naturally","tag-worry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/72651_maxresdefault.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}