Taking to Instagram Stories, the former Nickelodeon star shares several pictures of brain scans, one of which shows how a healthy brain looks like, while another sees the brain of someone who has PTSD.
- Apr 12, 2019
AceShowbiz - Ariana Grande continues to bring awareness to mental health issues. The former Nickelodeon star, who has been battling post-traumatic stress following the bombing at her Manchester concert in 2017, has just taken to Instagram Stories to show her devoted followers the terrifying effect that depression can bring to your body.
On Thursday, April 11, she posted on the social media site a screenshot of a group text where she had shared photos of several brain scans. One was a two side-by-side brain scans that showed what a "healthy brain" and "PTSD brain" looked like. From the two images, it was explained that a normal brain had very few areas outline, while a PTSD brain had several areas of the brain highlighted.
Below the text, Ariana shared a picture of her own brain scan, which had almost double the areas as the PTSD sample illuminated. "Hilarious and terrifying," she wrote on the black-and-white picture, stressing that she wasn't joking.
Ariana via instagram stories 😞
— tia💛 (@fakearianasmile) April 11, 2019
explanation: (PTSD) is a mental health condition that's triggered by a terrifying event either experiencing it or witnessing it. symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about the event. pic.twitter.com/G60t48VWMI
Ariana first opened up about her PTSD in a June 2018 interview with British Vogue, admitting that it was hard for her to talk about it because "so many people have suffered such severe, tremendous loss." She added, "But yeah, it's real thing. I know those families and my fans, and everyone there experienced a tremendous amount of it as well."
She gave more details about her mental health problems in an interview with Elle later in August of that same year. "When I got from tour, I had really wild dizzy spells, this feeling like I couldn't breathe," she told the magazine. "I would be in a good mood, fine and happy, and they would hit me out of nowhere. I've always had anxiety, but it had never been physical before. There were a couple of months straight where I felt so upside down."
