coffeeandneurons: Do you think mental illness isn’t real?  That your friend is “just a little blue”, or the homeless guy talking to himself is just faking it?   These are brain activity PET scans from several subjects exhibiting symptoms of four common mental illnesses.  Depression…a little blue indeed.  About 75% of the higher brain activity, especially that involved with motivation and pleasure, is depressed.  And OCD?  So much brain activity that a person may want to kill themselves to make it stop. Psychiatry is real.  Neuroscience backs it 100%. (Source: Mayo Clinic, NIMH)

coffeeandneurons:

Do you think mental illness isn’t real?  That your friend is “just a little blue”, or the homeless guy talking to himself is just faking it?   These are brain activity PET scans from several subjects exhibiting symptoms of four common mental illnesses.  Depression…a little blue indeed.  About 75% of the higher brain activity, especially that involved with motivation and pleasure, is depressed.  And OCD?  So much brain activity that a person may want to kill themselves to make it stop.

Psychiatry is real.  Neuroscience backs it 100%.

(Source: Mayo Clinic, NIMH)

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Posted on Saturday, 12 May
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    Someday I hope that I can help remove the stigma attached to mental illness.
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    This is such bullshit. Anyone with a medical license who is fooled by this should be forced to re-do medical school.
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    this is AWESOME
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