I've come to recognise when I am feeling stress versus anxiety. Stress for me is less intense and I've come to be able to manage it better. My anxiety on the other hand is another issue. Social, panic, fear for others, phobias, are all part of it. Psychosomatic symptoms are the worst. However, if I am stressed and I don't deal with it, it is gobbed up by anxiety which makes the disorder even worse. So managing stress has helped reduce the anxiety disorder symptoms to a certain degree. They're cousins, you see, and anxiety is the fat one, the bully. Gotta deal with those fat bullies ;)