I must set it in a pattern, embed it in a context, transform it into a link in the great chain of my being. Hence, diffuse anxiety become my focused worries. Worries are known and measurable quantities. They have a mover which can be tackled and eliminated. They have a beginning and an end.
Worries are human - anxiety divine.
The language of human conduct in the face of real and immediate danger is cast as blanket over the underlying abyss that harbours my anxiety. The paranoid seeks to alleviate his voiding by irrationally clinging to rationality. This is the path that leads from the cloud of anxiety, through the lamp posts of worry to the consuming darkness of paranoia. Paranoia is a defence against anxiety and against aggression. The latter is projected outwards, upon imaginary other, the agents of one's crucifixion.