City living a cause of parnoia?

Not much is written about the effects of urbanization on our minds and sanity. Does living in a city cost us our sanity. This article, which really made me sit up and take notice, said that one in four people is likely to suffer from paranoia, most likely because of an unfriendly urban environment. Take a look at this excerpt

Over the last 15 years, as a research fellow for the Wellcome Trust, Freeman has found links between paranoia and urbanisation, globalisation, migration and wealth inequality, increased power of the media, CCTV cameras and the internet. Urbanicity particularly fascinates him, largely, you sense, because he can’t quite pin it down. “You go into Camberwell [home to King’s College hospital] and it’s stressful, it’s noisy, it’s chaotic. You are bustled about, you have to negotiate your path. Sometimes it’s familiar and fine, but as soon as you have a suspicious thought, there is ambiguity and confusion, and paranoia thrives in that sort of environment. But it’s hard to quantify.

Read the entire article - Suspicious minds, by Sabene Durant - as it was published in Dawn here.