Light also suggests that West may have written into the novel, a personal anxiety about his marginal role, as a Jew in America.
"This agitated me and caused me great personal anxiety and mental distress," she continued.
But in some cases, the dire prediction seems also to reflect personal anxiety or a desire to spur more public action against the disease.
The supernatural elements in the series stood as metaphors for personal anxieties associated with adolescence and young adulthood.
A physician calls in a colleague to attend to his own family, knowing that personal anxiety may derange his judgment.
One person was treated for smoke inhalation and personal anxiety.
This was the first time I felt a stab of personal anxiety.
"However, I will do so with a growing personal anxiety that something very wrong is happening in our country."
The specific nature of Nizan's personal anxieties and problems have already been articulated.