3,000 Pulses

3,000 Pulses: Surviving Depression with TMS sheds light on the newest, safe, and proven-effective therapy—Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). The story describes how Martha Rhodes, a successful advertising executive, wife, and mother, who in her late fifties and despite a seemingly ideal life, succumbed to depression and overdosed on Xanax and alcohol in an unsuccessful suicide attempt. After a grueling stay in a psychiatric ward, Rhodes pursued Transcranial Magnetic...
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3,000 Pulses: Surviving Depression with TMS sheds light on the newest, safe, and proven-effective therapy—Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). The story describes how Martha Rhodes, a successful advertising executive, wife, and mother, who in her late fifties and despite a seemingly ideal life, succumbed to depression and overdosed on Xanax and alcohol in an unsuccessful suicide attempt. After a grueling stay in a psychiatric ward, Rhodes pursued Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as an alternative to ineffective drugs and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). 3,000 Pulses describes Rhodes’s challenges with untreated and drug-resistant depression, and how the road back to health with TMS returned her to an even better place than where she started. She now manages her depression with TMS therapy and without the side effects attributable to antidepressant medications.