The Age of Anxiety 2012 The Age of Anxiety is a film that delves into a crisis in motion according to the World Health Organization, disorders related to dread are the most prevalent mental illnesses on the globe at the moment Is this a disease of modernity Or is our highly competitive and material culture itself undermining our nerves The Age of Anxiety explores these questions, while also investigating the role that pharmaceutical companies and even the psychiatric profession play in this phenomenon Is our anxiety fueling an industry that in turn is profiting from and exploiting our dread in a vicious and self perpetuating cycle