Mental Health

Mental Health Mystical  Basic  300 hours  Psionic This skill allows you to determine the state of health of someone's mind and brain. Mental illness, fever, possessing Entities, debilitating strong emotional states, shock, oxygen deprivation, brain parasites, and more can be learned. This skill works on only one person at a time, within a few feet in front of you, and takes a few minutes for a diagnostic. Continuous monitoring for status changes is possible. This skill does not detect psychic or Demonic influence (but does for full possession), curses, diseases other than those affecting the brain, mild conditions (e.g. being a bit tired or malnourished), and does not detect emotional states other than those strong enough to be debilitating (being angry doesn't count--being so pissed off that you are shaking does). The Mental Health skill isn't quite as effective as a CAT-scan accompanied by an in-depth psychiatric write-up, but it can be close if used in conjunction with other skills. Without a solid background in medicine and psychology, a diagnosis from this skill might not be much more reliable than, 'I think she might be nuts'.