stress and anxiety are different experiences. Stress is your response to real, present challenges like work deadlines or bills. It's about what's happening right now. Anxiety is more about the future and what might happen. anxiety as part of , coming from fear of re-experiencing past trauma.
While stress responds to current problems and usually goes away when the situation changes, anxiety sticks around and feeds itself. that anxiety creates a state of constant worry where you become overly sensitive to perceived threats, seeing neutral situations through the lens of past hurt. Stress needs you to handle external problems, but anxiety needs internal healing.