Do you know what it's like to be afraid of your own mind?

This has more to do with having dark thoughts/fantasies about others (involving hurt/violence/death) than it does with going through panic attacks or depression. It strikes me that these kinds of thoughts are quite common rather than extraordinary but we suppress any conversation about them. I know I often think about many things that would scare people, I do think about murder and would I be able to commit murder if I was angry enough…I often think about impulse control and how many people must suppress many impulses on a daily basis…

Given data on how many rapists and violent offenders as well as psychopaths are out there, you know at least some of the people you run into on a regular basis would and could hurt you if that’s how it would go down, chance wise…

As a corollary, I see people sometimes and I swear I can tell that they want to hurt me, somehow…I just can tell…do you feel that way sometimes?