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 === Endogenous vs Exogenous Depression ===
-Given these numbers, its seems there is a huge mental health pandemic globally. However, if you look closer...by relying on psychometric tests to diagnose depression psychiatrists fail to account for a patients context. For instance, the patient might be recently bereaved or had just lost their job, the normal ups and downs in life. These external effects are called exogenous and by using purely behavioural psychometric test that are mixed in with more biological endogenous, disorders. This has created an illusion of a vast mental health epidemic.
+[[File:Exogenous Depression.png|alt=Exogenous Depression|thumb|'''Figure 1'''. Exogenous causes of depression are often missed my psychometric analysis.]]
+Given these numbers, its seems there is a huge mental health pandemic globally. However, if you look closer...by relying on psychometric tests to diagnose depression psychiatrists fail to account for a patients context. For instance, the patient might be recently bereaved or had just lost their job, the normal ups and downs in life (See '''Figure 1'''). These external effects are called exogenous and by using purely behavioural psychometric test that are mixed in with more biological endogenous, disorders. This has created an illusion of a vast mental health epidemic.
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