stress does "toy" with anxiety in a major way. What I found that helps when the anxiety comes on is to come here to PC. Another thing that helps me is concentrating really hard on the thing I was doing before the anxiety interrupted me. Lets say I was doing homework and the anxiety started to creep up on me. I would not stop the homework, I would put my nose in my text book and start concentrating on getting it done really hard. Now this may not work with everyone, but this is a way that Ive broken what could have been a full blown panic attack. I never lost my concentration and wow, the anxiety crawled back in its little hole and I actually started jumping up and down because I had beat it before it got me.