{"id":7809,"date":"2021-04-02T15:22:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T20:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nurturingmindscounseling.com\/newstaging\/?p=7809"},"modified":"2021-04-28T14:38:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T19:38:05","slug":"fear-vs-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nurturingmindscounseling.com\/newstaging\/fear-vs-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear vs Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch the video below to learn more about the difference between anxiety and fear. If you&#8217;re someone who prefers to read, keep scrolling down for the blog instead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fear vs Anxiety\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k7IDnokV3Tc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Read Here:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hey Guys, so today, I wanted to talk about the difference between anxiety and fear.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fear is a present-oriented state, so that means that our minds have perceived something as a threat. It could be a real threat, or it can just be a perceived threat, but either way, our minds think &#8220;danger danger,&#8221; and an internal alarm starts going off. That internal alarm activates your sympathetic part of your system to kick-start to prepare you for this threat (real or perceived). When that system gets activated, you will start to experience some physical symptoms. That can look like:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>heart&#8217;s racing&nbsp;<\/li><li>difficulty breathing&nbsp;<\/li><li>sweating&nbsp;<\/li><li>getting hot&nbsp;<\/li><li>getting cold&nbsp;<\/li><li>feeling dizzy&nbsp;<\/li><li>shaking<\/li><li>feeling like you&#8217;re choking<\/li><li>feeling numb or tingling&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To name of few potential physical symptoms. That&#8217;s you&#8217;re fight-flight or freeze response kicking in to make sure you survive. From <a href=\"https:\/\/nurturingmindscounseling.com\/newstaging\/you-can-thank-grug-for-your-anxiety\/\">an evolutionary perspective<\/a>, this system has developed over time to ensure you stay alive. Although sometimes it kicks in in certain situations where you&#8217;re not facing a life or death threat, but in that moment, you don&#8217;t know that because you&#8217;re distracted by your activated system. Again this happens to prepare you to survive this potentially life-threatening situation. Fortunately, most of the time, you&#8217;re not dealing with life-threatening events, but your system still responds the same way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anxiety is more of a future-oriented state, so anxiety is more about being concerned that something terrible will happen. I&#8217;m afraid that something will happen later, but it&#8217;s not happening right now. An example of the difference would be, let&#8217;s say I decide to go camping. While I&#8217;m camping, I see in the distance there is this huge scary brown bear! You better believe my fear response is going to kick in and activate my fight-flight or freeze response to make sure I hightail it out of there. And I STAY ALIVE!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anxiety would be more if my friend says, &#8220;Hey, do you want to go camping?&#8221; and I think, &#8220;Oh gosh, but what if a bear shows up?&#8221;. In response to that possible threat, I get worried and nervous about something terrible happening in the future. The tricky part is that future-oriented anxiety about something scary happening (potential bear sighting) can trigger a present-oriented fear response (as if the bear were already present) to kick in and incite your sympathetic system. Our system can&#8217;t distinguish that our mind has envisioned a future scary scenario in our head (not an actual real event) and acts as if a real threat is already happening. That&#8217;s part of the way that fear and anxiety are connected.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To summarize, the main difference is that fear is a present-oriented state, and anxiety is future-oriented. In future videos, I&#8217;ll talk a little more about whether fear and anxiety are helpful or not and when anxiety is normal versus an anxiety disorder. I hope this was helpful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the video below to learn more about the difference between anxiety and fear. 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