panic

“This is what we call in sociology a moral panic,” she said.

The smoke wasn’t strong, but it was enough to send her into a fight-or-flight panic.

On the economic front, Europe’s political class is trapped in a permanent panic attack.

Films are a chance to work out these nagging, existential neuroses that live in the back of the mind, the type that overwhelm to the point of panic if thought about for too long.

"Even if she coughs just a few times, I panic."