Curing Diffuse Anxiety

Lauren Reiff
Invisible Illness
Published in
7 min readApr 15, 2021

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Diffuse anxiety is anarchic; it follows no rules and tramples over entire mental territories with lawless ease. Diffuse anxiety is an exhausting nervousness; it is not characterized by the tautness of healthy anticipation or excitement. It is not coiled tension destined for a productive outlet, you see.

Instead, diffuse anxiety is a decidedly unproductive free-floating fear. Most of us know a thing or two about it and some…

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Lauren Reiff
Invisible Illness

Writer of economics, psychology, and lots in between. laurennreiff@gmail.com / I moved! Find me here: laurenreiff.substack.com