Dreamweaverrs Ponderings

Whether TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION works or not on a long term, bigger scale is yet to be seen. The accompanying price tag for treatment as it is currently is in the article, $6,000 to $10,000 is something many people couldn’t handle financially and I’m guessing that most insurance companies don’t cover experimental techniques very often. Still the idea that there is another possible treatment for depression on the horizon for some people, that doesn’t involve constantly downing medications and is maybe a little less invasive to the system, is somewhat hopeful. Pills can’t always be the only answer around. They don’t work for everyone either.

 At least researchers realize that depression is a real illness and seems to be around in epidemic proportions these days. It cripples what otherwise could be productive, healthy human beings. Depression can turn a functioning person almost helpless at times and make them unable to do anything beyond what involves very minimal day to day existence, in the worst cases.

If it works for depression too, what other things might it eventually be used for? Like they said, this is a “whole new area of medicine”. The possibilities could be amazing.