To the editor — The “only thing we have to fear is fear itself!” - Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This is one of the most striking quotations ever uttered by a U.S. president; yet with great trepidation, ...

THC overstimulates the amygdala, the brain region that regulates fear responses, which may explain why some people feel anxious or suspicious of others after using cannabis products with high THC ...

Paranoia is a symptom of several mental health conditions. It can be found in paranoid personality disorder (PPD), one of the “cluster A” or eccentric personality disorders. Paranoia often happens to ...

Paranoia is not simply synonymous with fear. It's yet another psychiatric term misrepresented and misunderstood by society at large that seeps into clinical work. More than once I've had to remind a ...

“Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.” So begins Franz Kafka’s The Trial, a novel Kafka worked on between 1914 and 1915 but never ...