Bruce Willis and Demi Moore’s daughter gets brain scan to show old trauma

Bruce Willis and Demi Moore’s daughter gets brain scan to show old trauma

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Bruce Willis and Demi Moore’s daughter Tallulah gets brain scan to show old trauma

Bruce Willis and Demi Moore’s daughter Tallulah Willis appeared in an Instagram video for California’s Amen Clinic in which she addressed a ‘big ol’ backpack of trauma’

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Tallulah Willis has opened up about “a series of personal struggles” – as she sought out a brain scan to get to the bottom of her mental health struggles.

Tallulah, daughter to Hollywood exes Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, headed to the Amen Clinic in Encino, California, to discover “effect of past trauma on her brain.”

Appearing in a video for the clinic, the 26-year-old said: “I’ve had a series of personal struggles. A big ol’ backpack of trauma that I carry around, and I’m trying to make it less heavy.

“I think there’s a validation in having someone say, ‘I can see exactly where the trauma lies in your brain. I can see this is where you get more anxious,’ and on top of it, have suggestions on how to help you in a different methodology than perhaps a therapist, or a psychiatrist or a general practitioner doctor.

“I just was really excited to get that different perspective.”

Tallulah also met with Dr Jay Faber, who presented her with a series of brain scans.

“I think managing my anxiety is the hardest,” she told him, “because my anxiety is very physical.

“So I’ll get anxious and my heart beats really fast, and I’ll get sweaty, and I’ll feel really upset and sick.”

The clinic uses a form of brain imaging to diagnose psychiatric issues.

It employs SPECT – single photon emission computed tomography – which uses gamma rays to examine blood flow levels in the brain.

While Tallulah shared that the consultation had given her “confidence”, there has been a deal of skepticism around the clinic’s methods.

The Washington Post reported that none of the American Psychiatric Association, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and the National Alliance on Mental Illness have validated claims about using brain scans to diagnose psychiatric conditions.

Bruce Willis, Tallulah Belle Willis and Demi Moore

Tallulah has previously opened up about struggling with an eating disorder, telling Teen Vogue in 2015: “I recall very specifically, I was in a New York hotel room when I was 13 (before social media was such a huge thing), looking at a photo of myself online. I broke down in tears as I started to read the comments.

“I thought, ‘I am a hideous, disgusting-looking person. I might be nice and I might be kind, but I’m a really unattractive human being.'”

She added that her depression became “overwhelming” at college.