Laws are written, debated, amended, and repealed. Unwritten rules are not. Yet it is often the unwritten ones that shape behaviour more consistently and survive far longer. You do not need to read them to know they exist. You feel them in what is rewarded, what is punished, and what is quietly avoided.

Anxiety is usually treated as something private. Personal. Internal. A chemical imbalance, a coping failure, a weakness you’re supposed to manage quietly. But anyone who has spent time in tense rooms, unstable institutions, or constantly panicked online spaces knows this explanation feels incomplete. Anxiety spreads. Not biologically, but socially. You can walk into a room and feel it before anyone speaks. Tight voices. Restless movement. Eyes scanning for threat. Nothing has

Smartphones no longer feel like tools. They feel like absence when they are missing. The anxiety of a lost phone is rarely about the device itself. It is about disorientation. Contacts disappear, memory fragments vanish, and coordination with the world collapses. When something so small can disrupt so much, it stops behaving like an object and starts behaving like a function.