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AN ADVANCED TREATMENT FOR DEPRESSION We specialize in treating depression with the most BY DR. JAMIE ROGERS advanced FDA-approved treatment, Transcranial pring has arrived! The sun is shining, the 60% of all adults have depression symptoms. Magnetic Stimulation.
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weather is warm, the trees and flowers are Depression has often been tragically misunderblooming, and the birds are chirping merrily. stood as character flaw with the adage “pull yourself TMS therapy is hope for long-term relief and remission We are finally able to move about freely after up by your bootstraps” being the prime rhetorical the life-robbingCOVID-19 symptomsconditions. of depression. treatment. I dare say that people who experience detwo yearsfrom of claustrophobic Many people are indeed experiencing the joys of pressive symptoms would exclaim, “If I could do that, www.truenorthimh.com spring, while others are wandering and wondering if it were that easy, I would have done it already!” why they could care less about spring—or for that Depression is an electrochemical brain problem. 102 Oakmont Drive, Greenville, NC 27858 matter – why they don’t care about much of anything. Electricity is the currency of the brain, and depresPeople with depression don’t see the vibrancy of sion is equivalent to an electrical short circuit where spring colors, feel the sunshine on their face and current flows down an unintended path or a simple the birds’ sounds are shrieks, not songs. Depressed circuit break where electricity simply ceases to flow, individuals often can barely crawl out of bed. If they though, in the case of the depression, the circuit manage to get going, they walk around a shell of break is protective. themselves – perhaps faking a smile, pretending to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a noninbe happy, going through the motions of the day to vasive treatment for depression that directly effects day; all the while, the emptiness of depression fills the electrical circuits in our brain. The physics of TMS the space where their life used to exist. Other people has been understood since the 1980s as an unimpedwith depression simply can’t fake it and withdraw ed passing of electrical currents through the scalp into the shadows of their existence. that, when it encounters neurons, causes depolarizaOften with no apparent rhyme or reason, peotion that leads to an action potential. TMS, a neurople experience a depressed mood, characterized stimulation therapy, but should not be confused with by mental health professionals as a loss of interest the first neurostimulation therapy - Electro Convulor pleasure in daily activities, problems with sleep, sant Therapy (ECT). TMS does not require anesthesia, eating, energy, concentration, or self-worth. Prior to does not evoke seizure activity, and has no cognitive the pandemic, an estimated 20% of all adults expeor memory problems associated. TMS is offered when rienced symptoms of a major depressive disorder. depressive symptoms are characterized as recurrent, During and post-COVID pandemic, as many as 40severe and have not responded to medication and/or 12
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