Posted by djmmm on December 14, 2004, at 9:18:43
In reply to is ANXIETY the same than FEAR ??? (nm), posted by Tepiaca on December 10, 2004, at 23:07:41
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no., "anxiety" generally comes in many forms...most people can "work through" anxiety. Fear is more closely associated with phobic states.
Certainly, something like a panic attack includes a false sense of fear, not unlike social phobia...but very different than "generalized anxiety," or "anxious isomnia"
The way I see it, anxiety is a part of the natural spectrum of emotion..but when anxiety becomes life altering, it becomes an "anxiety disorder," and when your anxiety disorder includes something that you yourself think is an "irrational" fear, it becomes a phobia (like social phobia..etc.
from http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/Anxiety/definition.asp"Anxiety" is a word so commonly used that many people don't understand what it means in mental health care. Complicating matters is the fact that "anxiety" and fear are often used to describe the same thing. When the word "anxiety" is used to discuss a group of mental illnesses, it refers to an unpleasant and overriding mental tension that has no apparent identifiable cause. Fear, on the other hand, causes mental tension due to a specific, external reason, such as when your car skids out of control on ice."
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