Diminished chords typically cause anxiety, not just because of how they sound but because they are thought to be difficult to improvise over - but they don't have to be. Try these "tonal" diminished options, they may open the door on how to interpret them in a context that makes sense.
These 4 are the ones that exist in harmonic minor.
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