It's not like when JFK was shot or 9/11 happened. Everyone who was over the age of, maybe, 7 knows where they were when those tragedies occurred, and exactly what they were doing.
They remember being stopped cold, stunned. But this tragedy is different. As a psychiatrist, people come to me all the time with fears and anxieties.
Heightened fear is nothing new. But slowly, over several weeks, the nature of this fear began to change. It was morphing into a terror of harming people, even oneself.
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