Traffic. Deadlines. Bills. These and other daily "inevitables" almost always leave us feeling stressed. Some people are able to forget stressful situations -- routine or traumatic - and leave them behind once the stressor is removed or over. However, for others, the stressors they face lead to a kind of chronic state of anxiety, or fear.
In her book, Nature's Prozac, Judith Sachs differentiates between stress and anxiety by saying, "Stress is physiological arousal - the body's reveille to a bad situation that has to be attended to. In calm individuals, the stress reaction vanishes as soon as the problem is taken care of. But anxious people who are highly reactive stay stressed -- …
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