depression

Originally posted: January 25, 2015 Richard Friedman MD reviewed in the New York Times an article by Helen Mayberg, MD fromJAMA Psychiatry . Dr. Mayberg started with the known premise that some patients do better with medication for depression, others do better with therapy...

I've been working on my TMS recovery for about 18 months. After about a year of work, I was able to get rid of my chronic pain syndromes and eliminate all the medication I was taking for my symptoms. However, I still have some TMS equivalents that I'm working on, i.e. anxiety, depression...

Is depression a TMS equivalent, and if so, is the treatment protocol the same as for TMS pain?

Since discovering the work of Dr. John Sarno 8 months ago, my life has undergone a transformation that I had never dreamed was possible. My journey of chronic pain began when I was 15 years old. I developed chronic, crippling pain in my left foot that was diagnosed as plantar fasciitis. After...

Hi everyone. I will try to make this as brief as possible. I'm currently suffering from severe anxiety, calf pain, and some muscle twitching. From what I can best tell, this all began last summer after having a very stressful school year with my fifth grade son, stressful year of work, and then...

All my life I've had depression symptoms. Even though I can tick every box on a "do you have depression?" checklist, and it is persistent, I still feel like it is low level. Maybe I'm minimizing it. With this in mind, I want to ask the forum what the relationship is between depression and TMS...

This is my first post here. Just joined last night. I am a member at tmshelp.com forum for a couple years and post frequently over there. I have know about this forum but just didn't have the time to spend at both places. Don't want to be redundant. I saw quite a few members belong to both...