EDITORIAL

摘要

Fear can be an overwhelming emotion. It can take over our minds and affect our nervous system. Fear can be like a wildfire, spreading and catching hold of everything in its path. In traumatic situations, fear grips our psyche, holding on tight while replicating the traumatic event in our mind and in our body over and over again and again. In general, fear can be elicited by external events that happen to us directly, or by events witnessed as a bystander, or these days by reading the newspaper or scrolling through social media.