Stress and Anxiety? What's the difference?

[MiST]

Is Anxiety a symptom of stress or is stress a symptom of anxiety? is Anxiety a more severe form of stress, the effects of not coping with it efficiently?

[SamC]

good question .... its not really a symptom its more a factor in it....

Stress is natural, everyone experiences stress in every day life and the body copes with it, however when stress becomes persisitant and is not managed properly the body starts to go into a kind of survival mode (hence the flight or fight expression used with anxiety) so unmanaged stresses become a factor in causing anxiety, thats my thoughts on it anyway, hope it makes sense

[MiST]

Great, thanks a lot as always Sam..