Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.

Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level.

I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition.

We're getting used to reality and fantasy passing into each other. Much of the border between them has been erased.

We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss.

There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms specific to the event.

Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in.