Hi everyone! It's been two years since I made this video, and I promise, I'm doing much better! I receive so many kind comments from people letting me know that they hope I am doing better, and I really am. Of course I have ups and downs like any human, but overall things are lighter and more manageable. :) If anyone is curious about my life in Portugal, my healing journey, and how I've been taking care of myself as a working mom of two, check out my podcast right here on RUclips! I hope it can bring light to the mental health journey you're on. 💗ruclips.net/p/PLvNvzK5kG8KzBk5eFXt3In7E6m2JlhKLr&si=6CD9sHBFPS3WfjkE
Thank you for posting your experiences. I am a little more thank half way through my TMS plan and I am curious to know how others have responded. I was very hopeful in the beginning but now feeling like it may not be the treatment that will help me.
Regular tms didn't work for me but the intensive tms did. It's the same treatment but 3-4 times a day instead of once a day. Look for someone who does the SAINT protocol. It relieved my anxiety and depression.
What is the Saint protocol? how did this help you? ......please will TMS lift my depressed state? 😔 ...I have to make a decision ASAP....my last resort as meds failed me.....does insurance cover this treatments? I need help ....I have no one to talk too .....Please reply back I appreciate 🙏 it - thankful for your help!❤
@Butterflywishes-rf9dt hi I just saw this msg and all though im.not the person who you replied too let me tell you I am on my 3rd week of tms and it has changed my mood tremendously. Trust me. Tried different mods different strengths for years and this thing tms is doing the work. I just hope it lasts for ever 🫂 🤗
@@Butterflywishes-rf9dtit will help with depression. I actually ask to go higher I'm at 55 strength TMS the machine has different power hits and I ask for higher
@@Butterflywishes-rf9dtShe recommended calling your insurance provider to ask about your coverage as each plan is different and you just don't know until you make the specific inquiry. It's great advice. Good luck❣️
I live, that you said WE, that includes us with you through this process. Thank you. And I’m very very proud of you. I’m 64 years old and had this after a very young age very big trauma event. Which caused me to think that I was crazy. I know you understand that. Thank you.🙏
I'm only seeing this now, but I want to thank you for sharing your journey. It's comforting, although sad, to hear someone else is going through the same issues as me. I'm starting TMS next month and praying for some sort of breakthrough. 🙏🏿
I have heard, “We have never seen this before!”with health issues all my life! I loved that you shared the psychology of being told that by health care professionals.
it was approved by the FDA in 2008 as an antidepressant treatment but was used since 1985! I just started the treatment but was pretty nervous before hand beacuse i felt like there wasn’t that much information on it so i hope this little time line gives someone as much peace as it did me!:)
I think you’re so genuine and courageous for posting this❤!! You are helping so many people understand the treatment and I’m sorry that it did not work for you. You are also very inspirational! I wish you all the best, and thank you for being you. It’s ok not to be ok.
I am new to TMS my doctor recommended this treatment after many different depressions medicine i think I’m ready to go with TMS treatment.. please pray for me
I just started week 4 of daily TMS treatments and I am seeing positive improvement. If you have any questions, I am happy to share more about my experience.
@@jagaudijagaudi5925 TMS saved my life 🩷 It worked!!! I’m so glad I made the decision to do it and I stuck with it. I did treatments every weekday for 38 treatments.
Thank you for sharing your journey with mental health and TMS. I’m sorry it didn’t help. I had it recommended to me recently by my therapist so I have been looking at it and found your channel. I have been diagnosed with ptsd, anxiety and depression and it has been going on for a long time with the ptsd symptoms getting much worse a couple years ago. Not to push unsolicited advice your way, but have you heard of Havening? I had never heard of it till I saw a therapist who specializes in it and it was extremely helpful for me. I am still struggling a bit but my extreme ptsd flashbacks and other issues have diminished from almost daily to only once a week or so and I am much more regulated. Best of luck to you!
I am so sorry this did not work for you. This is such a struggle I am going through this myself. You seem like a wonderful person and I hope you find something that brings you hope and peace. You have a wonderful attitude. better than mine
Hi there!! Thank you so much for taking the time to watch my video and to write a comment. I really appreciate your kind words! It has been over a year since I posted this video, and although my sleep is still pretty terrible, overall I'm in a much better place than I was before. Keep fighting your fight and don't give up on yourself! We deserve to keep looking for answers so that we can live fulfilling and whole lives!
Thank you, Mia. Very helpful. And your warm, positive perspective in the midst of all your dealing with is so courageous and commendable. I appreciate you greatly. With Love 💕
Thank you for your video ❤I am exploring this treatment - and gathering information . I’m sorry it didn’t work -😢 - for your depression . Will pray for you 🙏
You're so welcome! Thank you for watching! I filmed this a year ago and I'm doing much better. Still have challenges of course, but a lot better. Medication and therapy and lots of lifestyle changes and self-care. I wish you all the best! Depression is hard, but you can do this!
Have you thought about hallucinogens. There has been lots of research done on its beneficial effects on depression. Although it has not yet been approved, there are ongoing studies being done. I am glad to hear you are doing better.
TMS is my next option…I’ve had major depressive disorder for years. I had suicidal thoughts daily, it was horrific I am totally resistant to most medications so I’m hoping this helps!!
I'm so sorry to hear about all that you've been going through! That sounds so freaking hard and exhausting. I'm happy to hear that you haven't given up on yourself and are still searching for how to heal and recover. Keep going!
Have you tried Mindbloom Ketamine? TMS worked for me, but sublingual dissolving Ketamine Tablets seem to almost be the final nail in the coffin type of deal. Just my personal experience I'd like to share.
@@MiaHemstad sorry, I am just seeing your sweet comment. I appreciate it. Thankfully we found a combination of depression meds that are finally working since then. So thankful.
TMS helped me the first time, so I ended up having done it 4 times in the past 3 years, and debating on whether or not to pursue for the 5th time since winter depression is a thing for me. However, I feel like Ketamine was really what helped me most. TMS helped me DEAL/COPE with depression better, while Ketamine from Mindbloom, at the moment, eliminated 95% of my depression episodes both in severity and frequency.
Thank you for sharing! My current psychiatrist does not recommend ketamine for me, but I've heard that it has worked wonders for several people. I'm so glad that it works for you!
Thank you for your honest opinion of this "treatment." I'm so sorry it didn't help you and that you're experiencing depression and ptsd. I'm a mental health therapist in Florida and have a lot of empathy for what you have to live with. I'm very impressed by how hard you try to be happy. It's amazing that you are on RUclips, are a mom and seem so very productive even though you are still experiencing distress. I don't believe you are treatment resistant and think that's a very insensitive, demoralizing, disgusting thing to say to a patient. The thing is, the answers are there for you, and the truth is you haven't met the person who can help you yet. When you do finally get to the point where you can afford a therapist, I hope you'll remember that if it doesn't feel right on the FIRST visit, it probably isn't right and please don't go back to that person and move onto a new one until you find what's actually feeling good and right to you. It must resonate right for you.
Thank you for your kind words! I truly appreciate it. I have been seeing a therapist for the last year now and it has been an amazing fit! I've made a lot of progress and have restarted EMDR with great results. I'm definitely healing and I am better able to cope with the hard things in my life both externally and internally.
Very good news. Keep up the hard work because YOU are worth it and your kids deserve a happy, healthy role model and mother. Best of luck in everything you do❤
I received TMS and it was just like having a helmet put on your head and getting attacked by a woodpecker. It was so painful. I would cry after that I had like a straw face.
I've suffered from anxiety depression my whole life but in my twenties when I start smoking cannabis I stopped having night terrors. I have tried so many things over the years and I was really hoping this would be the one but here we go again.
Thank you for sharing. The process of trying to find the right treatment can be so exhausting and discouraging. Don't give up though!!!! You will figure it out. 🙏🏽
🥹♥️ I am doing so much better. It's been over a year since I posted this video. I'm so grateful to be healthier and stronger. Thank you for sharing this kind comment! I appreciate you!
I wish I could find someone that can heal my suffering. My mental health has declined so bad from chronic insomnia. It's hard to live anymore and wish someone would just take my life.
I'm so sorry to hear that you're in so much pain. There absolutely is healing and help. I'm not sure where you live, but if you're in the United States, call 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. If you're in immediate danger of hurting yourself, call the medical emergency line where you live. In the U.S. that's 911. Don't give up. 💗 Sending you love and strength.
i feel the same.. I'm probably gonna do TMS, but I doubt it'll work. I'll feel worse after from the waste of money and time. Some of us just weren't meant to live.. I'd do anything to just quietly slip away forever. WHY does life have to be this way?
Try past life regression hypnosis, and early life regression for this life. Do both. If you are plagued by nightmares, you need to go back and reprocess what has happened to you - and then go further back to process what led you here. It can provide deep healing. Sending love and light to you.
Thank you so much for telling us your experience. I’ve been putting this off because of price, time and just scared lol I joined a group on Facebook of pretty awful things that have happened to people who’ve done this.
I get it!! It can definitely be overwhelming and scary. I hope you can find a healthcare provider who you feel comfortable with to try TMS if you're a good candidate for the treatment!
Might try ISTDP therapy, which is available in Portugal. It is collaborative. you might try EMDR with a different therapist, and it should help with nightmares but "go slow to go faster."
I’m looking at tms in the uk. I’m only 18 but wanted to die for 5 years. It’s gonna cost near 10 grand since we don’t have insurance here. I’m scared I’ll spend all that money and then it won’t help me.
Hi Tess, I'm so sorry to hear that you have been suffering for so long. 💔 That is a lot of money. I can't advise you on what you should do. There are no guarantees with anything. TMS didn't work for me either, so I understand the fear. Seek whatever help you can afford. If money is an issue, see if there are other mental health organizations or programs that can help. Think about what is best for you and make your decision from there. I wish you healing. ♥️
I know, for a fact, because of my mental illness, has made me feel like, what you’re talking about in encouraging others, to be alert in our personal lives, in the mind thoughts that we get, because we have this difficulty, that you have encourage people like us to push forward and positively to be released from this constant thought in our brain that want to diminish the intelligence of the human mind. Saying that you have more likely, the same thoughts that I have been experiencing over my lifetime. Which is I continually through doing certain things like eating the right foods, Hope finding the right Psychiatrist, and wanting to be off of this medicine. I’ve been on that contributes to my body which is now at 64 years old, being overweight, maybe 40 pounds that’s awful I had always been skinny as of 2018. And now because of my age, I know certain things are going to contribute to my disability innocence? And as you and many others have to experience, the death of our bodies are intended to die. Everybody dies. Everybody is broken, no matter if they have mental illness. But the thought to understand that and believe it! Is to do the best that we can do today. That’s not like getting up in the morning and going out there doing our job like with the children with the grandchildren with people if you can get out of the house to experience, and one with a live person that we have in life is challenging. All I can say is that I’m so proud of you, because of your honesty, I am thankful that you understand your innermost mental capacity to even understand what we all go through. Also, I could say thank you again and I am praying for you and myself, and all the people that God is created and has allowed us to go through this. And the best thing ever! Is that it has brought more intelligent to our brain. Saying that again, I know in your mind, and my mind that we have a great gift of discernment.🙏 Please remember I speak into my microphone, and some of the sentencing might be complicated with my words. Thank you.
You're lucky it at least didn't harm you. I know of many people, myself included, where it made us worse. I have issues with mood dyregulation now, trouble with focusing and memory. Other issues too, but those are the main ones. It was two years ago and I'm still dealing with the fallout. I caution anyone against tms... it CAN harm you. The doctors won't admit it. If you do it and it hurts you, you'll be on your own. That's how it is for me now.
True. The brain is a very delicate organ. You should not be messing with it. My mind and nervous system were messed up by anti depressant drugs. It destroyed my health. 7 years after I stopped taking them, and I am still feeling the effects.
What do you mean??? it harmed you? as they want me to do this treatment ASAP..... Can you 🙏 please tell of your experience ❤......I need help as im.at my last resort at my wits end with living life in a depressed mental condition- ple as e tell me truth of TMS as why are so many pts saying it improved & saved their life? let me know your experience 🙏 please ❤ grateful for your help!!!!
No it’s not so invasive I just finished a treatment plan of 30 Units It hurt gave me a headache too much going on too fast for me like making me have 2 a day it’s more affective. It hurts and I couldn’t process what was happening. Everyone was in a hurry too much too soon gently would be good. Cheers
Have you tried Mindbloom Ketamine? TMS worked for me, but sublingual dissolving Ketamine Tablets seem to almost be the final nail in the coffin type of deal. Just my personal experience I'd like to share.
Came here to also comment try using PAT. Specifically ketamine treatment is incredibly powerful for depression. There is decent small studies of using low dose with tms
ECT is another treatment that one can try. It did not work 4 my hubby but it my help some 1 else. He is half way done with TMS He says he does mot feel different yet 😢
This is interesting. I am getting ready to start TMS with Greenbrook in Oregon, but they told me point blank, this was *not a good treatment if I had high levels of anxiety* but you said your clinic treated for anxiety.
Thank you for sharing! I can relate too well... I had my first TMS appointment yesterday & I almost fell out of the reclined chair. Not from pain but it was a totally involuntary thrust... tech tried at 40% & dropped to 1% & FELT THE SAME. Dr measured at 73 & yep tech told me that's considerably higher than others... I fell so hopless after so many medications & therapy. I go back today to try again. I don't know if I can do it.
@@MiaHemstad Thanks ... not any better. Tech said we are not proceeding till Dr is here. 👍👍 I made myself sit through a few & just closed my eyes & cried.. at 50 hertz & 10 hertz at 1%.. Thank you so much for understanding. I hope you are doing better 💝
@@MiaHemstad had remapping by Dr. TMS was apparently hitting a nerve in my scalp. Needed constant repositioning... luckily I had a great tech! Went from being shocked in my face to a gentle tapping on my head! I've completed 36 sessions & I can think through situations much more clearly! Much better than the down spiral of intense shaking anxiety. Still a long road of recovery ahead, but I can see a road now instead of just darkness.
Ptsd, anxiety, depression, insomnia, ed - i feeeel you on "feeling crazy" on meds 🤢 I hope I can get TMS, here in australia we have MERT and we can have it covered with a healthcare card. So im hoping 🤞🤞🤞 The results I've seen give me hope!
Mia and all on the chat, try aswagandha and stay consistent, just like you would with any medication. Comment back on chat to share your experience with it.
My son just finished the TMS Therapy …He had the same wonderful feelings of relief and then would be down…That went on for the whole 6 weeks ..That was about a week ago that he finished and today he texted that he wasn’t well😢😢. What do we do now😳😳😏😞
Also try gene site testing through your dr. to find which medications metabolize in your body. That way you can try and/ or cross off drugs that should work for body.
Sad to hear this didnt help. I truly believe TMS must be implemented alongside talk therapy. Because for those pathways to form you have to implement new changes and stratgies and then dig into healing underlining trauma, grief, etc that can further fortify for trigger a depressive episode. Its amazing to see the vulnerability of this as a beautiful young professional mama. High functioning depression and masking can really hide most of us from these treatment options. BTW my bestfriend got TMS worked for her but she had a depressive efispde after a year of remission then had a second course. Curious how they mapped you. There are different "best practices" for identifying the TMS prescription (placement + strength) that I believe play a huge role in the efficacy. Anyway, rambling. Thanks for sharing your story and your uplifing words.
Hi there! Thanks so much for your comment and for watching my video! I am doing so much better now since I last posted this video over a year ago. Yeah, I'm not sure why they didn't recommend talk therapy alongside the TMS. But thankfully I have a really great therapist now and I am on a medication that has been a huge support. 🙏🏽
Hey, doctor here, have you considered alternate diagnoses for your fatigue such as POTS, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, EDS? Also, I would suggest you look into your gut brain axis/ digestion.
People think that health care in Canada is free, but it's not. TMS is not covered by our provincial health insurance. You can pay for it out of pocket, but it is very expensive; 30 treatments is $ 10,000. I have treatment resistant depression and I would love to try TMS but unless the results are 100% guaranteed and permanent I could not lay out this kind of money. I have a new therapist that does EMDR so I will see how that goes.
@@MiaHemstad Thank you. It is very frustrating but I have heard good things about EMDR. My therapist is wary about throwing me into crisis so we have to get me healthier right now before we get into the nitty gritty of EMDR.
Hey I don’t know what province you live in, but I live in Ontario, and am starting rTMS treatment next week. It is 100% covered by OHIP. I made sure to ask the rTMS doctor who will be overseeing my treatment, and she told me this. She said it’s 100% covered by OHIP, and the only possible cost would be parking if you used the paid parking. (But at the clinic I’m going to, she said that there is an option of free 15min parking, and that can be used for rTMS patients as the sessions are only 15 mins long.)
@@dreaminglights I live in Ontario too. You are part of the St. Michael's study, are you? That's the only place I can find that offers rTMS at no charge. How did you get into the study?
@@janets7291 Hey, no it’s not at St.Michael’s, and it’s not a study. I just asked my doctor to refer me for the treatment. It’s at a mental health clinic. They don’t advertise that it’s free/covered by OHIP on the website or anything, so I think that’s why it’s hard to know that. I was concerned that it cost money, until I saw online on a thread on the internet that it’s covered by OHIP, or I would probably not have asked the doctor about it, and gone through with it. I also thought it cost money, because when I googled it, all the results came back showing it costing thousands in Canada. I’m not sure if only a few mental health clinics are covered by OHIP, or if the info is just outdated.
For me, my insurance cover 90% of cost for TMS. However, I feel like Ketamine was really what finally worked for me. TMS helped me DEAL with depression better, while Ketamine from Mindbloom, at the moment, eliminated 99% of my depression episodes both in severity and frequency.
I was referred by a psychiatrist. It really depends on your insurance company and what they require. Some people can just request to do TMS. Others have to be referred by other specialists. I hope that helps!
I start my TMS on Friday :) In my case, my insurance required a few things for coverage. The gist is that I had to have tried two different types of antidepressants and not had sufficient improvement, been in therapy for an extended period of time, and been officially diagnosed with major depressive disorder (or another mental illness). My insurance was apparently one of the easier ones, so it’s likely that you will need to see a psychiatrist and go through other kinds of treatment in order to get referred to TMS treatment. My psychiatrist actually does it in house, so if you can find that they can probably help you streamline the process.
Have you tried energy healing modalities like NAET, reiki, qi gong, the emotion code? I’m new to all of this too but just wanted to put those modalities out there in case you haven’t heard of them.
That's so nice of you to share some ideas! I haven't heard of those, other than reiki. I'm on a medication now that's really working for me, and I'm doing much better. Thanks though!
@@kathleentanner2563 hi! I don't share what medication I'm taking because it feels like giving medical advice. I encourage everyone to see their doctor and get evaluated and diagnosed. 💗
Thanks for your video advice; Ive discussed TMS with my therapist and im on the fence. Its striking ti me that after so many treatment hours it has no effect on you? And the expenses. Wow. But if you're more happy now than before i yhink it has had some benefits.
TMS did not improve my mental health, which is what I shared in this video. I didn't see an improvement after treatment. I hope you can make the decision that feels best for you!
My story is similar ! Tried alot of meds. for 15 yrs ! The only thing that worked was IV KETAMINE in London with Dr Yadhu ! But I couldn’t continue cuz I’m from Dubai, traveling back & forth was very difficult cuz I’m a single mother with teenagers in high school. I guess I’ll have to wait until my youngest finishes high school next year ! But it was very powerful and it was working ! Check it out ! But the Dr giving it is very important he understands - the Dr himself has to be an Anesthetist Dr.. not a nurse ! Very important you seek someone with experience !
Thank you for sharing! I'm so glad you found something that works for you! I am doing much better now on medication and in trauma therapy! Thank you! 💗
Hey I am going through the. Act same thing. I don’t believe this working for me. I am on my 8th treatment. I believe I M dropping this.i feel😢more aggressive, sad, and depressed and many different thoughts than when I was in meds. Which wasn’t the greatest. Thank you, because I was looking for some video expressing this treatment. 😢
I think your experiences go to show how the mental health field is full of false promises. It pains me to hear about how your psychiatrist kept putting you on different medications. Anti-depressants are only 15% effective! It's interesting how you felt the most beneficial thing was just having people show care for you. We should all take time to do this for each other.
You're truly amazing and I'm sorry all the thing you've tried have not worked. My husband is in a similar boat but EMDR is helping both of us. I've had two different EMDR therapists and one was okay but the second was worlds better, life changing. I've been doing it for over two years at varying frequencies and I know there is still much work to be done. I'm surprised it was not helpful to you and wonder if perhaps you would benefit from a different therapist better suited to your personality and perhaps if doing if for a longer period of time would make a difference. I am also a big fan of mushrooms, particularly with a psychedelic assisted therapist if you have access. Wishing you luck on your journey
You are so kind! Thank you!! I do have a new therapist as of this last year, and I just started EMDR with her, and I've been making progress. 🙏🏽 I appreciate you taking the time to share your experience with me. 😊
Thank you for sharing your experience. I am sorry it didn't work for you, but i love how you put things in perspective and are getting through it. You are so articulate that I would never have guessed you are depressed! I am having a consult for TMS soon. While it's disappointing to hear it didnt work for you, i think I might try it. I had acupuncture once for depression and that was a godsend. But didnt work 2nd time. So you never know what might do the trick, even if it's not a permanent fix. Science is always coming up with new things. These treatments didn't exist 10 years ago. Hopefully they will get closer and closer to understanding that complex organ! It's still a mystery for now.
Thank you so much for your kind comment! I really hope that it works out for you and I wish you all the best! There are so many variables when it comes to treating mental health you never know what might work for you! I'm so glad you're staying open and continuing to seek out treatment and support! I wish you all the best! Hopefully I will continue to see you around on this side of the internet!
It can range but Out of pocket youre looking into the thousands. Ideally, you get a Prior Authorization from your TMS provider which then insurance will cover. Typically you will have either a copay per session as example $30 x 36 sessions. However some carriers cover in full and others are very restrictive.
I would like to suggest reading the bible as a way to build up hope. Especially when you read the bible and pay attention to the stories and not just each scriptures. I love how the people in the bible were people, just like us, that went through many problems but believed in the Lord and his promise to us. That gave me SO much assurance. I hope this may help. Love you.
I’m sorry this approach didn’t provide relief. I am a holistic therapist in California who incorporates Christian spiritual values. If you would like to get therapy I will work with your budget.
At around 19:13 you talk about 'life stressors picking up' That is the root cause of your depression/anxiety You need to deal with those and your issues will go away,
That is great that God gave you that gift because you did a very well job that most people who have ongoing mental issues, especially depression. Need to hear. I was very blessed. And I’ll keep you in my prayers and maybe we can share more about each other if you like. I just recently got back on Facebook. And the only reason why I went off last year was to stop spending too much time. So if I don’t answer you back right away, that would be one of the answers why. Take care of. God bless you.❣️🙏
I am trying to get TMS from my insurance right now, I am hopeful. I may have to fly to the mainland from Hawaii to get the TMS paid for. Sorry to hear your treatment did not help very much. I get night terrors whenever I go up or down significantly on an antidepressant, I believe they trigger them. I am praying you get relief from the depression, anxiety, and insomnia. I understand the challenges especially having an antidepressant stop working and having to deal with insomnia. Oh my, prayers, prayers, and more prayers. My daughter and her family live in Portugal and are moving to Ericera at the end of June.
It's so sad to hear that the treatment didn't help you 😢 I hope one day I'll come across your RUclips video where you'll say that you overcame this damn disease and tell us what worked for you
That's okay!! I should probably do an update video cause overall I'm doing much better now!! Visit my channel for more videos. I've been sharing how I'm doing and tips on there.
The treatment did not work for her….. Just trying to save you time. There’s no reason to put a long video about it up if it did not work for you. Sorry but true.
Thank you for the heads up. I am only a couple sessions in. I will admit I look at things differently as I don’t mind people sharing if it didn’t work. I’m genuinely curious to see others experiences, even if it wasn’t the preferred result.
@@sadiehelen yes, I started last Thursday and today Monday, the day after Easter, was my third day but I’m feeling worse than ever right now. I’m hopefully optimistic that Things are gonna get better but I’ve heard that things go south and there’s a little lull for a while before things get better. but I think it’s after week 3-4. I’m gonna look for some more testimonials, but I found a really good one by Martha Rhodes. She did this about 10 years ago and she’s one of the 33% that went into total remission. I think she had to do a few more treatments right after the initial 36, but She’s still really doing great. She went around and spoke about it all over the country and helped get it approved by the FDA in all 50 states. Look her up and if you want to talk to her, she will actually take your phone call. She is a patient advocate for TMS and she does not charge anything.
I want to leave another comment. I’m very proud of you! And I care for you like you more likely care for me otherwise, you would not be sharing this to people like us. I loved when you said, now I forget, but I think it was on the thought of So-called normal people would not understand us, but we would’ve liked to be normal. Everybody has chemical and balances because of our nature, as human beings, born with sin, which is another issue of learning our faith in the true God, then, knowing that God exist, you wonder like the capital WHY?. Saying all that I’ve grown in a relationship of accepting the thorn in the flesh in the sense With the book of Romans in the Bible when Paul talks about having something different and annoying and having a disease that affects our bodies that limits us to understanding the WHY? So at least my brain and thinking, I know, for a fact that God accepts me this way because It’s not that necessarily that he has a lab this in my life. But I know for a fact it has been used in my life to understand how much God loves me. To understand that he is who he says he is the great I am, and that’s it and we only have one time to live a life as being a human. Without my faith of knowing that I will meet him one day Helps a lot. I hope you get back to me and text me that we could talk on the phone if possible because I’m so proud of you. I hope you get these messages. I had done one before this one and both of them were likely too long. I’m not like most people who live live. Maybe a sentence of a comet. Take care I’m praying for you, as you are more likely pray for me in the sense of both on the same affliction to our brain and our body which most people do not experience. And I totally agree with the medication and how doctors Are just practicing medicine on us. I’m sure in the heart and mind they hope that the medicine could help adjust the mood swings that we experience whether in nightmares, anxiety, manic, episodes, and the major depression is the worst of everything. But my hope is in God that these things will pass, as every human being will die one day, but when awaits for me is a hope of eternal life that will free me from this constant, annoyance as a human being. But I will give all glory to the god the creator of the Earth and I can go on and it might sound like preaching but I don’t care, I just hope that people have hope by reading the Bible. Hebrews chapter 12 four has allowed me to experience that the Bible is inspired by God himself through the part of who he is the Holy Spirit, which directs us to accept that verse. The word of God is alive and sharper than any two edges sword, and it’s able to go down into the marrow of a bone. my interpretation and confirmation from the Lord in my heart, and in my mind was that he knows the deepest and everything that we go through in our emotional mental capacity. And when we apply the thoughts from God throughout the whole Bible and understanding that he has that for his creation, to learn of him, and get glory to him, even in depression/anxiety//. That’s where I put my hope. Saying all that I still go through these mood swings. Even after doing the election shock therapy. And it did help me. But the medicines that I’m on make me feel like I still have all my symptoms but it’s manageable. thank you again and I’m very proud of you, and I will pray for you, because the Lord Jesus Christ loves you and we will be with him one day. If we can acknowledge our, I would say, sin, which is important to understand that we have a choice thank God! We have a free will because of him. And when I’ve learned over the years, is that scripturally that we might know him experientially presently inwardly.🙏 please understand I’m talking into the microphone on my iPhone and I’m sure, that my wording will get mixed in with crazy words that do not make sense. So consider that as you read my comment. Thank you again.
@moonbeam0 So true, depression is different from sadness. However, I do find that exercising regularly does indeed decrease both the severity and time for symptoms of episodic depression. While a person is in moderate/severe depression, encouraging them to exercise goes to show that they know nothing about depression: THAT'S LIKE ASKING A COVID PATIENT BEING TREATED IN ICU TO GO HIKING! 😬
You're going to be okay. Hang in there. 💗 I am doing okay now. I filmed this video over a year ago, and I am doing much better now. 🙏🏽 Healing is possible. Keep going!
Certainly don’t want to but have the psychiatrist tell me in the first meeting I’m a loser makes it quite hard to want to keep going after decades of garbage everyone just stay away from Kalamazoo TMS in Michigan, good luck and happy for all that get help
Hi everyone! It's been two years since I made this video, and I promise, I'm doing much better! I receive so many kind comments from people letting me know that they hope I am doing better, and I really am. Of course I have ups and downs like any human, but overall things are lighter and more manageable. :) If anyone is curious about my life in Portugal, my healing journey, and how I've been taking care of myself as a working mom of two, check out my podcast right here on RUclips! I hope it can bring light to the mental health journey you're on. 💗ruclips.net/p/PLvNvzK5kG8KzBk5eFXt3In7E6m2JlhKLr&si=6CD9sHBFPS3WfjkE
Try Mary Ruth liquid vitamins the morning & the nighttime vitamins this may help. Btw thanks for this video I hope this vitamin helps
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Would you try ECT? ❤
Yes I just had 30 treatments it was going okay like you I experienced a lighter not so heavy brighter world🐤
Thank you for posting your experiences. I am a little more thank half way through my TMS plan and I am curious to know how others have responded. I was very hopeful in the beginning but now feeling like it may not be the treatment that will help me.
Regular tms didn't work for me but the intensive tms did. It's the same treatment but 3-4 times a day instead of once a day. Look for someone who does the SAINT protocol. It relieved my anxiety and depression.
I'm so happy for you! I'm doing a lot better now, and I have a treatment regimen that works great for me. But I appreciate the suggestion!
What is the Saint protocol? how did this help you? ......please will TMS lift my depressed state? 😔 ...I have to make a decision ASAP....my last resort as meds failed me.....does insurance cover this treatments? I need help ....I have no one to talk too .....Please reply back I appreciate 🙏 it - thankful for your help!❤
@Butterflywishes-rf9dt hi I just saw this msg and all though im.not the person who you replied too let me tell you I am on my 3rd week of tms and it has changed my mood tremendously. Trust me. Tried different mods different strengths for years and this thing tms is doing the work. I just hope it lasts for ever 🫂 🤗
@@Butterflywishes-rf9dtit will help with depression. I actually ask to go higher I'm at 55 strength TMS the machine has different power hits and I ask for higher
@@Butterflywishes-rf9dtShe recommended calling your insurance provider to ask about your coverage as each plan is different and you just don't know until you make the specific inquiry. It's great advice. Good luck❣️
I live, that you said WE, that includes us with you through this process. Thank you. And I’m very very proud of you. I’m 64 years old and had this after a very young age very big trauma event. Which caused me to think that I was crazy. I know you understand that. Thank you.🙏
Thank you for being so open and honest! I am considering it and so it’s really nice to hear all about it. I hope you are feeling your best self yet ❤
I'm only seeing this now, but I want to thank you for sharing your journey. It's comforting, although sad, to hear someone else is going through the same issues as me. I'm starting TMS next month and praying for some sort of breakthrough. 🙏🏿
I really hope you get the healing you need!! 🙏🏽
Hello! Did tms help you? thank you
Hey sir, how did it go?
@ANewJerusalem777 it went really well and I'm doing much better. I'm going to do a second round starting next week. Overall it was helpful.
I have heard, “We have never seen this before!”with health issues all my life! I loved that you shared the psychology of being told that by health care professionals.
Thank you for watching!! You understand!
I was literally once told by a doctor "you're the Perfect Storm" !!! 🤯 Oh gee, thanks? 🤨
it was approved by the FDA in 2008 as an antidepressant treatment but was used since 1985! I just started the treatment but was pretty nervous before hand beacuse i felt like there wasn’t that much information on it so i hope this little time line gives someone as much peace as it did me!:)
I hope it works for you!!! 💗
Hey. Did this work for you?
How did it go?
did tms help you? I have major depressive disorder
Thank you so much for sharing your story. Hearing every testimonial of this treatment is so important. You are doing good work ❤️
Thank you 💗 I wish you well. 🙏🏽
I think you’re so genuine and courageous for posting this❤!! You are helping so many people understand the treatment and I’m sorry that it did not work for you. You are also very inspirational! I wish you all the best, and thank you for being you. It’s ok not to be ok.
Awww this is such a sweet message. Thank you so much for saying this 💗🙏🏽 I appreciate your kindness.
I am new to TMS my doctor recommended this treatment after many different depressions medicine i think I’m ready to go with TMS treatment.. please pray for me
Prayers hope it does work for you 😊
How did it go? please 🙏 sending you prayers? did it work? as Dr pressuring me too......please reply ASAP ❤
I just started week 4 of daily TMS treatments and I am seeing positive improvement. If you have any questions, I am happy to share more about my experience.
@@EmpathyandCompassionplease update 🙏🏼 i will start mine next week
@@jagaudijagaudi5925 TMS saved my life 🩷 It worked!!! I’m so glad I made the decision to do it and I stuck with it. I did treatments every weekday for 38 treatments.
You are amazingly courageous. Thank you for being so transparent. I am cheering for you.
Awww thank you so much! 💗💗💗
Thank you for sharing your journey with mental health and TMS. I’m sorry it didn’t help.
I had it recommended to me recently by my therapist so I have been looking at it and found your channel. I have been diagnosed with ptsd, anxiety and depression and it has been going on for a long time with the ptsd symptoms getting much worse a couple years ago. Not to push unsolicited advice your way, but have you heard of Havening? I had never heard of it till I saw a therapist who specializes in it and it was extremely helpful for me. I am still struggling a bit but my extreme ptsd flashbacks and other issues have diminished from almost daily to only once a week or so and I am much more regulated. Best of luck to you!
Wow YOU'RE AMAZING! (but you already knew that).
Your video helped me a lot as I am contemplating doing TMS.
Hahaha I didn't know that. Thank you!! I appreciate you saying that! 💗🙏🏽🤗 I'm glad my video could help.
I am so sorry this did not work for you. This is such a struggle I am going through this myself. You seem like a wonderful person and I hope you find something that brings you hope and peace. You have a wonderful attitude. better than mine
Hi there!! Thank you so much for taking the time to watch my video and to write a comment. I really appreciate your kind words! It has been over a year since I posted this video, and although my sleep is still pretty terrible, overall I'm in a much better place than I was before. Keep fighting your fight and don't give up on yourself! We deserve to keep looking for answers so that we can live fulfilling and whole lives!
Thank you, Mia. Very helpful. And your warm, positive perspective in the midst of all your dealing with is so courageous and commendable. I appreciate you greatly. With Love 💕
Thank you so much 💗🙏🏽
Thank you for your video ❤I am exploring this treatment - and gathering information . I’m sorry it didn’t work -😢 - for your depression . Will pray for you 🙏
You're so welcome! Thank you for watching! I filmed this a year ago and I'm doing much better. Still have challenges of course, but a lot better. Medication and therapy and lots of lifestyle changes and self-care. I wish you all the best! Depression is hard, but you can do this!
You are a brave girl. I know it is hard to deal with depression. I have suffer by it since I was a kid. Wish you the best, and thank you for sharing.
@@ChristineChen-q3i aww thanks! Just taking it one day at a time. Take good care 💗
Have you thought about hallucinogens. There has been lots of research done on its beneficial effects on depression. Although it has not yet been approved, there are ongoing studies being done. I am glad to hear you are doing better.
TMS is my next option…I’ve had major depressive disorder for years. I had suicidal thoughts daily, it was horrific I am totally resistant to most medications so I’m hoping this helps!!
I'm so sorry to hear about all that you've been going through! That sounds so freaking hard and exhausting. I'm happy to hear that you haven't given up on yourself and are still searching for how to heal and recover. Keep going!
Have you tried Mindbloom Ketamine? TMS worked for me, but sublingual dissolving Ketamine Tablets seem to almost be the final nail in the coffin type of deal. Just my personal experience I'd like to share.
Same 😢 have you started yet?😊
Jameshaungo can I get these treatments being on percocets for my chronic pain too?
@@MiaHemstad sorry, I am just seeing your sweet comment. I appreciate it. Thankfully we found a combination of depression meds that are finally working since then. So thankful.
TMS helped me the first time, so I ended up having done it 4 times in the past 3 years, and debating on whether or not to pursue for the 5th time since winter depression is a thing for me.
However, I feel like Ketamine was really what helped me most. TMS helped me DEAL/COPE with depression better, while Ketamine from Mindbloom, at the moment, eliminated 95% of my depression episodes both in severity and frequency.
Thank you for sharing! My current psychiatrist does not recommend ketamine for me, but I've heard that it has worked wonders for several people. I'm so glad that it works for you!
How many ketamine treatments did you have?
Can you tell me how the treatments are performed is there any pain? please 🙏 I meed help - respond back ASAP ❤
Thank you for your honest opinion of this "treatment." I'm so sorry it didn't help you and that you're experiencing depression and ptsd. I'm a mental health therapist in Florida and have a lot of empathy for what you have to live with. I'm very impressed by how hard you try to be happy. It's amazing that you are on RUclips, are a mom and seem so very productive even though you are still experiencing distress. I don't believe you are treatment resistant and think that's a very insensitive, demoralizing, disgusting thing to say to a patient. The thing is, the answers are there for you, and the truth is you haven't met the person who can help you yet. When you do finally get to the point where you can afford a therapist, I hope you'll remember that if it doesn't feel right on the FIRST visit, it probably isn't right and please don't go back to that person and move onto a new one until you find what's actually feeling good and right to you. It must resonate right for you.
Thank you for your kind words! I truly appreciate it. I have been seeing a therapist for the last year now and it has been an amazing fit! I've made a lot of progress and have restarted EMDR with great results. I'm definitely healing and I am better able to cope with the hard things in my life both externally and internally.
Very good news. Keep up the hard work because YOU are worth it and your kids deserve a happy, healthy role model and mother. Best of luck in everything you do❤
@@dinameitner60 thank you so much!! I appreciate you taking the time to share kindness with me!
@MiaHemstad Hi Mia! Has tms helped you with depression and ptsd? Thank you
I don't want to give you unsolicited advice-so if you want any suggestions for chronic nightmares I'm happy to share what worked for me. ✌️
Thank you for asking before giving advice! Sure, please share!
❤ thank you for sharing your story, this was the first video I watched about TMS and I’m grateful for your honesty and insight
Thank you for saying this 💗 I appreciate you watching and I wish you well on your journey!
I received TMS and it was just like having a helmet put on your head and getting attacked by a woodpecker. It was so painful. I would cry after that I had like a straw face.
I did my first session yesterday.. exactly how I felt too
I've suffered from anxiety depression my whole life but in my twenties when I start smoking cannabis I stopped having night terrors.
I have tried so many things over the years and I was really hoping this would be the one but here we go again.
Thank you for sharing. The process of trying to find the right treatment can be so exhausting and discouraging. Don't give up though!!!! You will figure it out. 🙏🏽
Wow. You are awesome. I hope you are doing well. You so deserve it. Thank you for creating this video and sharing this. It helped me.
🥹♥️ I am doing so much better. It's been over a year since I posted this video. I'm so grateful to be healthier and stronger. Thank you for sharing this kind comment! I appreciate you!
I wish I could find someone that can heal my suffering. My mental health has declined so bad from chronic insomnia. It's hard to live anymore and wish someone would just take my life.
I'm so sorry to hear that you're in so much pain. There absolutely is healing and help. I'm not sure where you live, but if you're in the United States, call 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. If you're in immediate danger of hurting yourself, call the medical emergency line where you live. In the U.S. that's 911. Don't give up. 💗 Sending you love and strength.
You might have sleep apnea/complex sleep apnea/or UARS
i feel the same.. I'm probably gonna do TMS, but I doubt it'll work. I'll feel worse after from the waste of money and time. Some of us just weren't meant to live.. I'd do anything to just quietly slip away forever. WHY does life have to be this way?
Try past life regression hypnosis, and early life regression for this life. Do both. If you are plagued by nightmares, you need to go back and reprocess what has happened to you - and then go further back to process what led you here. It can provide deep healing. Sending love and light to you.
Thank you for your suggestion! I appreciate you watching my video!
Thank you so much for telling us your experience. I’ve been putting this off because of price, time and just scared lol I joined a group on Facebook of pretty awful things that have happened to people who’ve done this.
I get it!! It can definitely be overwhelming and scary. I hope you can find a healthcare provider who you feel comfortable with to try TMS if you're a good candidate for the treatment!
Might try ISTDP therapy, which is available in Portugal. It is collaborative. you might try EMDR with a different therapist, and it should help with nightmares but "go slow to go faster."
I’m looking at tms in the uk. I’m only 18 but wanted to die for 5 years. It’s gonna cost near 10 grand since we don’t have insurance here. I’m scared I’ll spend all that money and then it won’t help me.
Hi Tess, I'm so sorry to hear that you have been suffering for so long. 💔 That is a lot of money. I can't advise you on what you should do. There are no guarantees with anything. TMS didn't work for me either, so I understand the fear. Seek whatever help you can afford. If money is an issue, see if there are other mental health organizations or programs that can help. Think about what is best for you and make your decision from there. I wish you healing. ♥️
Thank you so much for sharing. I love you!
You are so welcome, Geawna! I love you too!
I know, for a fact, because of my mental illness, has made me feel like, what you’re talking about in encouraging others, to be alert in our personal lives, in the mind thoughts that we get, because we have this difficulty, that you have encourage people like us to push forward and positively to be released from this constant thought in our brain that want to diminish the intelligence of the human mind. Saying that you have more likely, the same thoughts that I have been experiencing over my lifetime. Which is I continually through doing certain things like eating the right foods, Hope finding the right Psychiatrist, and wanting to be off of this medicine. I’ve been on that contributes to my body which is now at 64 years old, being overweight, maybe 40 pounds that’s awful I had always been skinny as of 2018. And now because of my age, I know certain things are going to contribute to my disability innocence? And as you and many others have to experience, the death of our bodies are intended to die. Everybody dies. Everybody is broken, no matter if they have mental illness. But the thought to understand that and believe it! Is to do the best that we can do today. That’s not like getting up in the morning and going out there doing our job like with the children with the grandchildren with people if you can get out of the house to experience, and one with a live person that we have in life is challenging. All I can say is that I’m so proud of you, because of your honesty, I am thankful that you understand your innermost mental capacity to even understand what we all go through. Also, I could say thank you again and I am praying for you and myself, and all the people that God is created and has allowed us to go through this. And the best thing ever! Is that it has brought more intelligent to our brain. Saying that again, I know in your mind, and my mind that we have a great gift of discernment.🙏 Please remember I speak into my microphone, and some of the sentencing might be complicated with my words. Thank you.
You're lucky it at least didn't harm you. I know of many people, myself included, where it made us worse. I have issues with mood dyregulation now, trouble with focusing and memory. Other issues too, but those are the main ones. It was two years ago and I'm still dealing with the fallout. I caution anyone against tms... it CAN harm you. The doctors won't admit it. If you do it and it hurts you, you'll be on your own. That's how it is for me now.
True. The brain is a very delicate organ. You should not be messing with it. My mind and nervous system were messed up by anti depressant drugs. It destroyed my health. 7 years after I stopped taking them, and I am still feeling the effects.
What do you mean??? it harmed you? as they want me to do this treatment ASAP.....
Can you 🙏 please tell of your experience ❤......I need help as im.at my last resort at my wits end with living life in a depressed mental condition- ple as e tell me truth of TMS as why are so many pts saying it improved & saved their life?
let me know your experience 🙏 please ❤ grateful for your help!!!!
Sorry that was your experience. What were your symptoms before you had the TMS therapy?
Is this like "shock treatment" my sister had decades ago in a mental hosp.?
No. It is not like that at all.
No it’s not so invasive I just finished a treatment plan of 30 Units
It hurt gave me a headache too much going on too fast for me like making me have 2 a day it’s more affective. It hurts and I couldn’t process what was happening. Everyone was in a hurry too much too soon gently would be good.
Cheers
Wow, I admire you! Thank you for sharing your story 😊. I am starting TMS treatment next Tuesday at MUSC in South Carolina 🙏
Thanks for watching! Wishing you the very best on your healing journey!
How are the treatments going?
Have you looked into neurofeedback or ketamine therapy? Both seem to be very promising treatments when others have failed Meds, TMS, Emdr ect.
Hi! I just started learning about Ketamine! I'm still seeing if it's right for me. Thanks for sharing!
Have you tried Mindbloom Ketamine? TMS worked for me, but sublingual dissolving Ketamine Tablets seem to almost be the final nail in the coffin type of deal. Just my personal experience I'd like to share.
Came here to also comment try using PAT. Specifically ketamine treatment is incredibly powerful for depression. There is decent small studies of using low dose with tms
ECT is another treatment that one can try. It did not work 4 my hubby but it my help some 1 else. He is half way done with TMS
He says he does mot feel different yet 😢
This is interesting. I am getting ready to start TMS with Greenbrook in Oregon, but they told me point blank, this was *not a good treatment if I had high levels of anxiety* but you said your clinic treated for anxiety.
@@81erinleeann yes they treated for anxiety and depression
Thank you for sharing! I can relate too well... I had my first TMS appointment yesterday & I almost fell out of the reclined chair. Not from pain but it was a totally involuntary thrust... tech tried at 40% & dropped to 1% & FELT THE SAME. Dr measured at 73 & yep tech told me that's considerably higher than others...
I fell so hopless after so many medications & therapy. I go back today to try again. I don't know if I can do it.
That is so hard! I'm sorry it's not going smoothly. I hope they're able to figure it out and that you'll be able to feel better soon!! ♥️♥️♥️
@@MiaHemstad Thanks ... not any better. Tech said we are not proceeding till Dr is here. 👍👍
I made myself sit through a few & just closed my eyes & cried.. at 50 hertz & 10 hertz at 1%..
Thank you so much for understanding.
I hope you are doing better 💝
@@deedleedee55 oh man. I'm sorry 😔 I'm doing much better now. I've found what works for me, I know you'll find it too. Keep going ♥️♥️♥️
Ketamine infusions and then auvelity: I am amazed at my turnaround.
@@MiaHemstad had remapping by Dr. TMS was apparently hitting a nerve in my scalp. Needed constant repositioning... luckily I had a great tech! Went from being shocked in my face to a gentle tapping on my head! I've completed 36 sessions & I can think through situations much more clearly! Much better than the down spiral of intense shaking anxiety. Still a long road of recovery ahead, but I can see a road now instead of just darkness.
It would help if you talked more about TMS. I have gone through this
I'll pray for you. Mental health problems are worse than death. It eats your very soul. Please say a prayer for me.
Hang in there. Healing is possible for you. I filmed this video over a year ago, and I have made so much progress since then. Keep going 💗
What frequency and stimulation site? What % of motor threshold did they stimulate at?
Mines is only 20 mins, woodpecker feeling, as of now it’s NOT helping 😑
I'm sorry to hear that it's not helping 😞
@@MiaHemstad thanks beautiful 🫶🏽
Ptsd, anxiety, depression, insomnia, ed - i feeeel you on "feeling crazy" on meds 🤢 I hope I can get TMS, here in australia we have MERT and we can have it covered with a healthcare card. So im hoping 🤞🤞🤞 The results I've seen give me hope!
Guided Magnetic e-Resonance Therapy (MeRT)
I truly hope the treatment works out for you! 🙏🏽
I had tms treatments hoping that my depression would lift. It didn't help me at all. 😢
I'm sorry to hear that 😔
Mia and all on the chat, try aswagandha and stay consistent, just like you would with any medication. Comment back on chat to share your experience with it.
My son just finished the TMS Therapy …He had the same wonderful feelings of relief and then would be down…That went on for the whole 6 weeks ..That was about a week ago that he finished and today he texted that he wasn’t well😢😢. What do we do now😳😳😏😞
I'm so sorry to hear that. Definitely speak with a medical professional to figure out your next steps. 💗
Thanks for the great video
You are welcome!!
Also try gene site testing through your dr. to find which medications metabolize in your body. That way you can try and/ or cross off drugs that should work for body.
@@discovr4me I did that! It's very helpful!
Sad to hear this didnt help. I truly believe TMS must be implemented alongside talk therapy. Because for those pathways to form you have to implement new changes and stratgies and then dig into healing underlining trauma, grief, etc that can further fortify for trigger a depressive episode. Its amazing to see the vulnerability of this as a beautiful young professional mama. High functioning depression and masking can really hide most of us from these treatment options. BTW my bestfriend got TMS worked for her but she had a depressive efispde after a year of remission then had a second course. Curious how they mapped you. There are different "best practices" for identifying the TMS prescription (placement + strength) that I believe play a huge role in the efficacy. Anyway, rambling. Thanks for sharing your story and your uplifing words.
Hi there! Thanks so much for your comment and for watching my video! I am doing so much better now since I last posted this video over a year ago. Yeah, I'm not sure why they didn't recommend talk therapy alongside the TMS. But thankfully I have a really great therapist now and I am on a medication that has been a huge support. 🙏🏽
Thank you for sharing your experience. I’m doing TMS in 4 days.. I really want it to work.. I’m tired of feeling like this…
I hope you get some relief too! You deserve to feel better! I wish you the best!
How. Are you doing?
My TMS treatment was going well but it was just suspended due to underlying health issues
How did it go?
Hey, doctor here, have you considered alternate diagnoses for your fatigue such as POTS, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, EDS? Also, I would suggest you look into your gut brain axis/ digestion.
@@shivachandar4094 thanks! I am currently working on this. :)
I wonder if TMS can be used to recall lost memories.
Keep FIGHTING the good FIGHT 💪💯💪
Hey, you should try again ibogain or mushrooms
People think that health care in Canada is free, but it's not. TMS is not covered by our provincial health insurance. You can pay for it out of pocket, but it is very expensive; 30 treatments is $ 10,000. I have treatment resistant depression and I would love to try TMS but unless the results are 100% guaranteed and permanent I could not lay out this kind of money. I have a new therapist that does EMDR so I will see how that goes.
I'm sorry. That is so hard and sounds frustrating. I really hope you're able to get relief and healing through EMDR. 🙏🏽💗
@@MiaHemstad Thank you. It is very frustrating but I have heard good things about EMDR. My therapist is wary about throwing me into crisis so we have to get me healthier right now before we get into the nitty gritty of EMDR.
Hey I don’t know what province you live in, but I live in Ontario, and am starting rTMS treatment next week. It is 100% covered by OHIP. I made sure to ask the rTMS doctor who will be overseeing my treatment, and she told me this. She said it’s 100% covered by OHIP, and the only possible cost would be parking if you used the paid parking. (But at the clinic I’m going to, she said that there is an option of free 15min parking, and that can be used for rTMS patients as the sessions are only 15 mins long.)
@@dreaminglights I live in Ontario too. You are part of the St. Michael's study, are you? That's the only place I can find that offers rTMS at no charge. How did you get into the study?
@@janets7291 Hey, no it’s not at St.Michael’s, and it’s not a study. I just asked my doctor to refer me for the treatment. It’s at a mental health clinic.
They don’t advertise that it’s free/covered by OHIP on the website or anything, so I think that’s why it’s hard to know that.
I was concerned that it cost money, until I saw online on a thread on the internet that it’s covered by OHIP, or I would probably not have asked the doctor about it, and gone through with it. I also thought it cost money, because when I googled it, all the results came back showing it costing thousands in Canada. I’m not sure if only a few mental health clinics are covered by OHIP, or if the info is just outdated.
So even with it being covered by your health insurance, you still had to pay a certain amount out of pocket?
Yes, because they only provide partial coverage.
For me, my insurance cover 90% of cost for TMS.
However, I feel like Ketamine was really what finally worked for me. TMS helped me DEAL with depression better, while Ketamine from Mindbloom, at the moment, eliminated 99% of my depression episodes both in severity and frequency.
Thank you! You are so authentic
Thank you! That's so kind of you to say!
Hello I love your video I was just wondering do you need to be first seen by a therapist or psychiatrist before going to the TMS.
I was referred by a psychiatrist. It really depends on your insurance company and what they require. Some people can just request to do TMS. Others have to be referred by other specialists. I hope that helps!
Thank you so much for answering my question. 🤗
@@wendyalvarez8266 you're so welcome!!
I start my TMS on Friday :) In my case, my insurance required a few things for coverage.
The gist is that I had to have tried two different types of antidepressants and not had sufficient improvement, been in therapy for an extended period of time, and been officially diagnosed with major depressive disorder (or another mental illness).
My insurance was apparently one of the easier ones, so it’s likely that you will need to see a psychiatrist and go through other kinds of treatment in order to get referred to TMS treatment. My psychiatrist actually does it in house, so if you can find that they can probably help you streamline the process.
@@sw618 wishing you healing!!
Have you tried energy healing modalities like NAET, reiki, qi gong, the emotion code? I’m new to all of this too but just wanted to put those modalities out there in case you haven’t heard of them.
That's so nice of you to share some ideas! I haven't heard of those, other than reiki. I'm on a medication now that's really working for me, and I'm doing much better. Thanks though!
@@MiaHemstad 4:00
Hi, what medication are you taking?
@@kathleentanner2563 hi! I don't share what medication I'm taking because it feels like giving medical advice. I encourage everyone to see their doctor and get evaluated and diagnosed. 💗
Thanks for your video advice; Ive discussed TMS with my therapist and im on the fence.
Its striking ti me that after so many treatment hours it has no effect on you?
And the expenses. Wow.
But if you're more happy now than before i yhink it has had some benefits.
TMS did not improve my mental health, which is what I shared in this video. I didn't see an improvement after treatment. I hope you can make the decision that feels best for you!
I'm getting confused, this is a magnetic therapy right? But you kept saying electronic signal or electronic field?
My story is similar ! Tried alot of meds. for 15 yrs ! The only thing that worked was IV KETAMINE in London with Dr Yadhu ! But I couldn’t continue cuz I’m from Dubai, traveling back & forth was very difficult cuz I’m a single mother with teenagers in high school. I guess I’ll have to wait until my youngest finishes high school next year ! But it was very powerful and it was working ! Check it out ! But the Dr giving it is very important he understands - the Dr himself has to be an Anesthetist Dr.. not a nurse ! Very important you seek someone with experience !
Thank you for sharing! I'm so glad you found something that works for you! I am doing much better now on medication and in trauma therapy! Thank you! 💗
Hey I am going through the. Act same thing. I don’t believe this working for me. I am on my 8th treatment. I believe I M dropping this.i feel😢more aggressive, sad, and depressed and many different thoughts than when I was in meds. Which wasn’t the greatest. Thank you, because I was looking for some video expressing this treatment. 😢
I'm so sorry to hear that it's not working for you. Keep seeking solutions to the challenges you're facing. It's out there!!
I think your experiences go to show how the mental health field is full of false promises. It pains me to hear about how your psychiatrist kept putting you on different medications. Anti-depressants are only 15% effective! It's interesting how you felt the most beneficial thing was just having people show care for you. We should all take time to do this for each other.
Every dr i talk to thinks ads are effective and amazing. All they do is make me feel lethargic and more sleepy
@@HillbillyYEEHAAWhat are “ads”? Thanks!
Could you please share what are those nightmares about?
You're truly amazing and I'm sorry all the thing you've tried have not worked. My husband is in a similar boat but EMDR is helping both of us. I've had two different EMDR therapists and one was okay but the second was worlds better, life changing. I've been doing it for over two years at varying frequencies and I know there is still much work to be done. I'm surprised it was not helpful to you and wonder if perhaps you would benefit from a different therapist better suited to your personality and perhaps if doing if for a longer period of time would make a difference. I am also a big fan of mushrooms, particularly with a psychedelic assisted therapist if you have access. Wishing you luck on your journey
You are so kind! Thank you!! I do have a new therapist as of this last year, and I just started EMDR with her, and I've been making progress. 🙏🏽 I appreciate you taking the time to share your experience with me. 😊
Whats EMDR?
Thank you for sharing your experience. I am sorry it didn't work for you, but i love how you put things in perspective and are getting through it. You are so articulate that I would never have guessed you are depressed! I am having a consult for TMS soon. While it's disappointing to hear it didnt work for you, i think I might try it. I had acupuncture once for depression and that was a godsend. But didnt work 2nd time. So you never know what might do the trick, even if it's not a permanent fix. Science is always coming up with new things. These treatments didn't exist 10 years ago. Hopefully they will get closer and closer to understanding that complex organ! It's still a mystery for now.
Thank you so much for your kind comment! I really hope that it works out for you and I wish you all the best! There are so many variables when it comes to treating mental health you never know what might work for you! I'm so glad you're staying open and continuing to seek out treatment and support! I wish you all the best! Hopefully I will continue to see you around on this side of the internet!
Thank u Mia !
What kind of coach are u
I'm a self-care coach. 😊
Hope Ur doing well now!!!
I am doing okay! My sleep is still not good, but I am coping well, I think. Thank you!! I hope you're doing well too!!
What specific medication is for PTSD please?
Hi there! There are several. It's best to talk with your doctor and get properly screened and diagnosed.
Thank you 🙏
@@karensherlock5151 you're so welcome 💗💗💗
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Hey...thank you for this video and I need a help buddy
Thank you
You're so welcome 💗
Thanks for sharing
You're welcome!
Praying for your recovery sister, God has a plan!
I think depression only control in your own technique.all other techniques r working and not working.
Price for TMS?
My insurance covered most of it, so I do not remember. Sorry!
It can range but Out of pocket youre looking into the thousands. Ideally, you get a Prior Authorization from your TMS provider which then insurance will cover. Typically you will have either a copay per session as example $30 x 36 sessions. However some carriers cover in full and others are very restrictive.
I would like to suggest reading the bible as a way to build up hope. Especially when you read the bible and pay attention to the stories and not just each scriptures. I love how the people in the bible were people, just like us, that went through many problems but believed in the Lord and his promise to us. That gave me SO much assurance. I hope this may help. Love you.
I’m sorry this approach didn’t provide relief. I am a holistic therapist in California who incorporates Christian spiritual values. If you would like to get therapy I will work with your budget.
At around 19:13 you talk about 'life stressors picking up'
That is the root cause of your depression/anxiety
You need to deal with those and your issues will go away,
I would love to know, what your self-employed business is? I just wanna know what it is. I would love to talk with you one day. Again, thank you.🙏
Thank you! I am a marketing consultant and self-care coach! www.miahemstad.com/
That is great that God gave you that gift because you did a very well job that most people who have ongoing mental issues, especially depression. Need to hear. I was very blessed. And I’ll keep you in my prayers and maybe we can share more about each other if you like. I just recently got back on Facebook. And the only reason why I went off last year was to stop spending too much time. So if I don’t answer you back right away, that would be one of the answers why. Take care of. God bless you.❣️🙏
I am trying to get TMS from my insurance right now, I am hopeful. I may have to fly to the mainland from Hawaii to get the TMS paid for. Sorry to hear your treatment did not help very much. I get night terrors whenever I go up or down significantly on an antidepressant, I believe they trigger them. I am praying you get relief from the depression, anxiety, and insomnia. I understand the challenges especially having an antidepressant stop working and having to deal with insomnia. Oh my, prayers, prayers, and more prayers. My daughter and her family live in Portugal and are moving to Ericera at the end of June.
Thank you for sharing and for your well wishes 🙏🏽 I hope you get the treatment and healing you need!
Have you tried ketamine treatment?
No because I'm not a candidate.
I tried it, it did NOTHING for me. 6 treatments @@MiaHemstad
It's so sad to hear that the treatment didn't help you 😢
I hope one day I'll come across your RUclips video where you'll say that you overcame this damn disease and tell us what worked for you
That's okay!! I should probably do an update video cause overall I'm doing much better now!! Visit my channel for more videos. I've been sharing how I'm doing and tips on there.
The treatment did not work for her….. Just trying to save you time. There’s no reason to put a long video about it up if it did not work for you. Sorry but true.
Thank you for the heads up. I am only a couple sessions in. I will admit I look at things differently as I don’t mind people sharing if it didn’t work. I’m genuinely curious to see others experiences, even if it wasn’t the preferred result.
@@sadiehelen I’m 3 sessions in. So far no good news.
@@weaverdreams good luck ❤️ got my fingers crossed for the both of us!
@@sadiehelen yes, I started last Thursday and today Monday, the day after Easter, was my third day but I’m feeling worse than ever right now. I’m hopefully optimistic that Things are gonna get better but I’ve heard that things go south and there’s a little lull for a while before things get better. but I think it’s after week 3-4.
I’m gonna look for some more testimonials, but I found a really good one by Martha Rhodes. She did this about 10 years ago and she’s one of the 33% that went into total remission. I think she had to do a few more treatments right after the initial 36, but She’s still really doing great.
She went around and spoke about it all over the country and helped get it approved by the FDA in all 50 states.
Look her up and if you want to talk to her, she will actually take your phone call. She is a patient advocate for TMS and she does not charge anything.
@ChampagneFabulous oh, shut up. What the hell do you think the comment section is for?
17:05 "Did the treatment work?" "No."
You had to do it for an hour? I guess the place I'm going does 20 minute sessions.
I want to leave another comment. I’m very proud of you! And I care for you like you more likely care for me otherwise, you would not be sharing this to people like us. I loved when you said, now I forget, but I think it was on the thought of So-called normal people would not understand us, but we would’ve liked to be normal. Everybody has chemical and balances because of our nature, as human beings, born with sin, which is another issue of learning our faith in the true God, then, knowing that God exist, you wonder like the capital WHY?. Saying all that I’ve grown in a relationship of accepting the thorn in the flesh in the sense With the book of Romans in the Bible when Paul talks about having something different and annoying and having a disease that affects our bodies that limits us to understanding the WHY? So at least my brain and thinking, I know, for a fact that God accepts me this way because It’s not that necessarily that he has a lab this in my life. But I know for a fact it has been used in my life to understand how much God loves me. To understand that he is who he says he is the great I am, and that’s it and we only have one time to live a life as being a human. Without my faith of knowing that I will meet him one day Helps a lot. I hope you get back to me and text me that we could talk on the phone if possible because I’m so proud of you. I hope you get these messages. I had done one before this one and both of them were likely too long. I’m not like most people who live live. Maybe a sentence of a comet. Take care I’m praying for you, as you are more likely pray for me in the sense of both on the same affliction to our brain and our body which most people do not experience. And I totally agree with the medication and how doctors Are just practicing medicine on us. I’m sure in the heart and mind they hope that the medicine could help adjust the mood swings that we experience whether in nightmares, anxiety, manic, episodes, and the major depression is the worst of everything. But my hope is in God that these things will pass, as every human being will die one day, but when awaits for me is a hope of eternal life that will free me from this constant, annoyance as a human being. But I will give all glory to the god the creator of the Earth and I can go on and it might sound like preaching but I don’t care, I just hope that people have hope by reading the Bible. Hebrews chapter 12 four has allowed me to experience that the Bible is inspired by God himself through the part of who he is the Holy Spirit, which directs us to accept that verse. The word of God is alive and sharper than any two edges sword, and it’s able to go down into the marrow of a bone. my interpretation and confirmation from the Lord in my heart, and in my mind was that he knows the deepest and everything that we go through in our emotional mental capacity. And when we apply the thoughts from God throughout the whole Bible and understanding that he has that for his creation, to learn of him, and get glory to him, even in depression/anxiety//. That’s where I put my hope. Saying all that I still go through these mood swings. Even after doing the election shock therapy. And it did help me. But the medicines that I’m on make me feel like I still have all my symptoms but it’s manageable. thank you again and I’m very proud of you, and I will pray for you, because the Lord Jesus Christ loves you and we will be with him one day. If we can acknowledge our, I would say, sin, which is important to understand that we have a choice thank God! We have a free will because of him. And when I’ve learned over the years, is that scripturally that we might know him experientially presently inwardly.🙏 please understand I’m talking into the microphone on my iPhone and I’m sure, that my wording will get mixed in with crazy words that do not make sense. So consider that as you read my comment. Thank you again.
Try ayahuasca
Definitely not for everybody
Exercise
@moonbeam0 So true, depression is different from sadness. However, I do find that exercising regularly does indeed decrease both the severity and time for symptoms of episodic depression. While a person is in moderate/severe depression, encouraging them to exercise goes to show that they know nothing about depression: THAT'S LIKE ASKING A COVID PATIENT BEING TREATED IN ICU TO GO HIKING! 😬
vocal fry. why?
Keep the faith🙏🏼I feel your pain.Thanks for your input on TMS.Holidays are tough for me as well.🫶🏼
You're going to be okay. Hang in there. 💗 I am doing okay now. I filmed this video over a year ago, and I am doing much better now. 🙏🏽 Healing is possible. Keep going!
Wish I had a chance to try it but drs are the gatekeepers and making me about some trying for help
I'm sorry you're going through this. It can definitely be frustrating. Don't give up 💗
Certainly don’t want to but have the psychiatrist tell me in the first meeting I’m a loser makes it quite hard to want to keep going after decades of garbage everyone just stay away from Kalamazoo TMS in Michigan, good luck and happy for all that get help
@@ceciltuttle743 goodness that is awful. I am so sorry to hear that
Thank you