Your Depression Should be Over Already.
The true story of a massive study on one of the most effective treatments that you've never heard of.
This article is about the data that demonstrate a depression treatment that works is here —now— and is wildly more effective than the standard of care. I spent about five years of my life contributing to this publication. I have a massive emotional and financial conflict of interest in the following essay (and not because it made me wealthy):
Being a co-author on the largest data set ever published on one of the most effective treatments for depression? It could be a cause for celebration. However, much like the reality of getting depression to remission that major healthcare payers routinely block, it’s a bit of a hollow victory. This real-world follow-up of an FDA-cleared treatment in 1351 patients demonstrated the most likely outcome of dTMS treatment with the “H1” stimulator—a medical device—was remission. This remarkable. It’s also a challenge to the popular discourse around an intractable “mental health crisis.”
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