[goat granny]

My error in my post was in regard to a cat scan, it was a pet scan that records not the physical brain as a cat scan does but how well the brain uptakes the necessary things from the blood stream to function properly..In some patients large parts of the brain are not even functioning while some parts are....they show up as different colors on the pet scan according to how much is functioning normally...

[steve86]

Yes, PET is a function-oriented brain scan. But results are not consistent across patients — depression has many causes, differing manifest symptoms and various treatments. I also concur that religion doesn't necessarily make one feel better — but can allow one to bear the cross a little longer. That serves God's will. No matter how bad and dysfunctional I might feel, I still manage to get out a few choppy fragments of a Rosary during those blackest of times. I believe that's why I'm still here, more so than the antidepressive drugs.