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Stress is an experience of psychological instability in response to environmental factors. This disease is a source of disease and impacts at short, medium and long term. Additionally, you can damage the brain at the molecular level and from there, extending its damage to the body.

Anxiety and stress are disorders that involve a huge social burden in terms of disability and social costs. It is estimated that between 25 and 40 percent of the population has an episode of anxiety over his life.

Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent psychiatric disorder among the general population. Anxiety and stress appear as two sides of same coin. “The anxiety is the psychological aspect of stress and this is the somatic aspect, the biological side, anxiety,” says José Luis Carrasco, section chief of the Psychiatry and Director of the Unit Personality Disorders Clinical Hospital San Carlos, Madrid, Spain.

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