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New Anxieties: The Fear of Being Cancelled

2025-10-19

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This article proposes that political polarization and cancel culture are generating a novel anxiety disorder variant characterised by irrational fear of public nullification. Drawing on clinical and social psychological frameworks, the author argues that punishing social conditions surrounding ideological conformity are producing measurable anxiety states that warrant recognition as a distinct clinical phenomenon...

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052db821-9c62-59a0-924c-c87db8f94471
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10.32388/substack.h17589
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