Free Floating Anxiety Is Pervasive

World health organization says that one in five people actually have anxiety disorder. Wichis over 300 million people. Under these conditions, a narrative is distributed through the mass medium indicating an object of anxiety and at the same time providing a strategy to deal with the sobject of anxiety. Then the following happ or might happen. People suddenly feel connected again, in a heroic struggle with the object of anxiety. A new kind of solidarity, a new kind of social bond, and a newkind of meaning making, sense making, emerges in society.

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