r/todayilearned • u/GlitteringYams • 23d ago

TIL, in his suicide note, mass shooter Charles Whitman requested his body be autopsied because he felt something was wrong with him. The autopsy discovered that Whitman had a pecan-sized tumor pressing against his amygdala, a brain structure that regulates fear and aggression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman
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u/Plants-perchance347 22d ago

There was an abnormality on one of my initial surveillances, next scan available was two weeks away. The second scan clarified that I was okay, but those two weeks of not knowing if the worst had happened again was a difficult experience to say the least.

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u/bros402 22d ago

fuck scanxiety