An anxiety disorder may develop where anxiety is insufficiently managed, characterized by a continuing or periodic state of anxiety or diffuse fear that is not restricted to definite situations or objects.
"What seems to be worrying a lot of people now is that people from different cultures are coming here, and they don't know how they will integrate, and that's quite a diffuse fear, and that's now being exploited by some political forces".
It was striking, in fact, just how carefully both sides had used the past five months -- in letters and phone calls between the presidents and quiet shuttling between Beijing and Washington -- to diffuse fears that have already cropped up on both sides.
INDEED, since the threat of anthrax has migrated from the first case in Boca Raton, Fla., to newsrooms in New York as well as government buildings and post offices in Washington -- having been mailed from New Jersey -- a more diffuse yet immediate fear has spread around the state.
A small minority wants to dominate a large majority, to plant its mines not only in the ground, but also in the body, to diffuse terrorism and fear, just like the young soldiers in the Danish film Land of Mine by Martin Zandvliet.
Anxiety is a diffuse sensation of fear, which is not related to a real and actual external danger.
Jeh Johnson, the former top Pentagon lawyer, said that the US was facing a "more diffuse" threat of terrorism, and feared that the US faced a "blind spot" in tracking the foreign travel of suspicious Americans – although he said that the Department of Homeland Security needed vigilance in protecting civil liberties.
Thus, these studies provide little insight into how fear or other feelings diffuse when relevant information and emotion is simultaneously broadcast both over social ties and through other channels, such as mass media [51], [52].
Rather than flip off fear, this lugubrious sally diffuses it, contaminating an excellent toy to no cogent end.
In conclusion, the current results support the notion that SAD is a brain linked disorder, neurally characterized by aberrant emotional face processing in the fear network but with more diffuse deviations in regional gray matter volume over the whole brain.
The fMRI technology immediately noticed that players with only a few years of experience activated a diffuse set of brain areas, including areas involved in fear and anxiety.
