TMS: A Non Medication Treatment for Depression

First, I consider it important to identify the very clear set of symptoms that are emerging in the group of people harmed by TMS. After speaking with and reading the testimony of hundreds of people, the most common symptoms are:

Significantly worsening depression and anxiety (which may also be newly “treatment-resistant”)

Cognitive impairment such as short-term memory or functional memory loss and decreased ability to multitask

Irritability

Fatigue

Panic attacks

Increased suicidal ideation

Chronic headaches

Loss of balance,

Dizziness

Almost every person I’ve spoken with experienced at least one of these, if not all of them.

Additional symptoms that are somewhat less common include:

Tinnitus

Hearing loss

Eye injury

Migraines

Different forms of tachycardia

Seizures and epilepsy

Blood pressure problems

Speech problems

Muscle pain/weakness/fasciculations/cramping/tightness

Insomnia

Dissociation

Environmental sensitivities to temperature, light, smell, and sound

Sensitivity to medications and supplements

Psychosis has also been observed in a few rare cases, but at least half of those specifically involve overuse of TMS (as described in this article).

It also became obvious to me that these symptoms manifest themselves in a very specific way. For instance, the worsening anxiety and/or depression is unrelenting and does not respond to treatment. As an example, before my TMS injury, when I was extremely anxious or depressed I would run longer and start eating really well, and this would always improve my symptoms to some degree. Typically, the harder I worked out, the better I felt, and the better I ate, the better I felt.

But after TMS, when I became depressed and anxious, exercise and eating did not help. I immediately began working out harder and harder and put myself on a stricter diet, which became stricter because I never got any relief from my symptoms. Every day I woke up feeling the same intense depths of despair, and I would become very anxious during the day. If I tried to meditate or run or use the CBT methods I had developed in the past, none of them made ANY difference at all. I found this to be remarkable and deeply disconcerting, which only compounded my situation.

Another characteristic of my TMS injury was that instead of improving in the months following TMS, I actually got worse. Immediately after TMS, I did not feel nearly as bad as I began to feel as time went on. Immediately after TMS, I still had my depression and anxiety, and I may have even felt slightly better due to the placebo effect and the hope that it was helping me.

However, about a month after TMS, I felt my symptoms were slowly intensifying until, about three months after TMS, they had become far more severe. The level of depression I felt was at least ten times what it was before. Also, instead of having anxiety occasionally bother me, I now had it all day, and panic attacks that I had only experienced once or twice in my whole life became a daily occurrence.

I concluded that this is what led to the subsequent increased, intense suicidal ideation that I experienced, which is what most others have mentioned to me when discussing their TMS injury as well. When you are extremely depressed and frequently panicking, suicidal ideation naturally follows; you come to believe you will never get any relief from the suffering and you begin to doubt if you can live with it.

To me, this is a normal human response to the trauma that TMS causes in the brain and on the nervous system. If we take a step back here and look at how these symptoms are manifesting, we can see this is “delayed onset.” New symptoms are continually manifesting after the initial injury has occurred.

Just another example of psychiatric quackery. No scientific evidence for the theory let alone results of this latest debacle.
You might as well wave a magic wand around and shout psychobabble. It does no good at all. Correction, it makes psychiatrists a lot of money and may have a very expensive placebo effect. When will we learn, and demand that no further psychiatric drugs or procedures are introduced without properly conducted, double blinded, controlled trials. The drugs and ECT do more harm than this latest nonesence, which is a scam.

Are there any concerns w/ pts. W electro cardiomyopathy? Do u treat pts w electrophysiological pathology? 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨