As my anxiety heightened, my skin only grew hotter and itchier.
When a Home Secretary proclaims the need for the state to have access to private information there is understandable anxiety, heightened by the proposition that an elected politician will have some oversight.
Tens of thousands of steel workers fear that they may soon lose their jobs, their anxiety heightened by the recent decision by one of the largest steel companies, LTV, to shut down, throwing 7,500 employees out of work across the Midwest.
Unfounded rumors of insurrection had already been coursing through the county seat of Helena (the anxiety heightened by the fact that blacks outnumbered whites in the county nearly three to one), and the area soon found itself overrun with vigilante groups and outside posses roaming the woods and gunning down blacks.
Further research should assess the influence of other psychological variables (i.e., depression, anxiety, heightened concern about illness, anger) on functional levels in patients following ACLR.
Anxiety heightened when an officer pumping gas in Texas was gunned down by a black man in August.
Mindfulness practice has been linked with improved sleep and emotional stability, reduced stress, lower levels of depression and anxiety, heightened immune system function, and improved mental clarity.
These anxieties were heightened by the location.
And many of those anxieties are heightened in immigrant communities, especially those from the Middle East, where the terminology of religious extremism can raise red flags.
Their anxieties were heightened last week when Joe Hockey, the tourism minister, chided the industry for failing to capitalise on the Olympics publicity.
