Consumed by Fear

When excessive dread leads to mental disorders

Photo by Kyle Cleveland on Unsplash

Situated in Montreal where I undeniably feel safer and more alive, I can better tolerate hearing about the latest lunacy infiltrating my former neighborhood in the United States. Still, as I endeavored to wade through news citing the escalation of violent crime (including beating a dog to death) in the bourgeois neighborhood of Park Slope Brooklyn, I was…