Posted by Twinleaf on July 30, 2014, at 12:26:09
In reply to Re: Low Field Magnetic Stimulation to treat depression » Twinleaf, posted by SLS on July 30, 2014, at 8:32:45
Thanks Scott! I really appreciate your kind words.
The severe depression began 20 years ago, when my mother, father and younger brother all died within a few months of one another. This apparently activated a vulnerability I had had, which was latent as long as things were gong well. For the next 13 years, I tried therapy and a range of ADs with essentially no improvement. Seven years ago, I joined a TMS trial at Emory. It eliminated the depression completely for a few weeks each time, but I did need to keep going back for maintenance treatment every few months, until it was FDA - approved and I could get it in my home town.
I also changed therapists at that time, and was lucky enough to find one who worked in an attachment mode, sort of the way Alan Schore describes. The combined experience of keeping my brain physiologically closer to normal with the TMS, and decreasing my attachment vulnerabilities with the right type of therapist seems to have made such a wonderful difference in how I feel and approach life.
I have the impression from a few posters here that they, too, find that working with the right therapist helps create the most lasting emotional changes.. Usually, they have also relied heavily on medications, especially in the earlier stages. I have had essentially the same experience, only relying on TMS rather than ADs.
Even when TMS is effective, it is almost always a temporary treatment which needs to be repeated. Before getting into remission, I must have had 150 -200 sessions of it! Insurance is starting to pay for it to an extent, but it can become extremely expensive. Hopefully, some of its newer forms may turn out to be longer-lasting.
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