
Ask These Therapists ANYTHING! (Dr. Matthew Breuninger and Isaac Wicker) | Ep. 408
Pints With Aquinas
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The Difference Between Stress and Anxiety
I think people are using this time of like I can't go to bed because I don't feel a fulfillment Like my day doesn't actually feel fulfilled. It's stresses like boom bomb goes off boom bear comes in the room Right uh fight or flight response Anxiety is like an extended response um it oftentimes more vague tooUm sometimes we can pinpoint an anxiety, but when you think about generalizing anxiety disorder you're talking about Not being able to exactly identify the cause of the anxiety whereas a stressor You can usually point specifically to a stressor So I tend to conceptualize it as Short-term immediate perception of threat versus long-term more vague More cognitive.
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