It is normal to be afraid, because fear is ingrained in human beings. Fear is associated with emotions, and emotions can control a person's behavior and reaction to certain situations. Most psychologists and psychiatrists have discovered that this is how the human mind and body synchronize. If it persists, our feeling of fear may manifest into something more serious, such as a personality disorder. Authors of horror genres place disorders in their stories because life-threatening situations can alter a person's state of mind, such as a zombie apocalypse. A psychologist or psychiatrist may not be around during the zombie apocalypse, but if such professionals existed, someone like Morgan Jones would be the ideal patient. AMC's television series The Walking Dead and the comic strip The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore gave readers and viewers an example of how a situation such as a zombie apocalypse could cause an individual to develop a “paranoid personality disorder”. Paranoid personality disorder can be studied in the field of psychology, which plays an important role in these stories because psychology allows us to analyze and evaluate the state of a character through specific research on various troubles. Through the field of psychology, Morgan's development of fear and paranoia can be further explored by examining the situations he was placed in. Psychology can help readers examine in more detail how this disorder affects Morgan's decisions, so that effective treatment can be offered. of a psychologist would be to examine Morgan Jones' sudden transition from an average mental state to a paranoid mental state, so that the psychologist can determine whether Morgan actually exhibits characteristics...... middle of paper ... ...of many medications available to reduce anxiety symptoms, such as Valium and Prozac, researchers caution that patients should not become overly dependent on the medication (Siegel 198). Works CitedDobbert, Duane L. Understanding Personality Disorders: An Introduction. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007. Print. Freeman, D. and Freeman, J. (2008). Paranoia: fear of the 21st century. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 189. Freeman, Daniel and Jason Freeman. “Is paranoia increasing? » The Psychologist 22.7 (2009): 582-585. PsycINFO. Internet. March 19, 2014. Siegel, Marc. False alarm: the truth about the epidemic of fear. Hoboken, NJ: JohnWiley & Sons, 2005. Print. Stout, Martha. The Paranoia Shift: How terror rewires our brains and reshapes our behavior – and how we can regain our courage. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. Print.