Right before the new year I started TMS treatment. TMS stands for transcraninal magnetic stimulation and you can think of it as microdosing electroconvulsive therapy. Instead of shocking your whole shit, they use a precisely positioned electromagnetic coil to sends bursts of energy through the skull and into the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Exactly what it does no one has satisfactorily explained to me. Not that I trust explanations from psychs— I was on antidepressants for years before I learned that the whole chemical imbalance spiel is, generously speaking, a loose metaphor (or, less generously, complete bullshit). As far as I understand, TMS is supposed to work like a paperclip slotting into the reset button of my brain. Fourteen sessions in, this has not yet happened. But I still have 21 more to go.
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Right before the new year I started TMS treatment. TMS stands for transcraninal magnetic stimulation and you can think of it as microdosing electroconvulsive therapy. Instead of shocking your whole shit, they use a precisely positioned electromagnetic coil to sends bursts of energy through the skull and into the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Exactly what it does no one has satisfactorily explained to me. Not that I trust explanations from psychs— I was on antidepressants for years before I learned that the whole chemical imbalance spiel is, generously speaking, a loose metaphor (or, less generously, complete bullshit). As far as I understand, TMS is supposed to work like a paperclip slotting into the reset button of my brain. Fourteen sessions in, this has not yet happened. But I still have 21 more to go.