All MDD Patients There Is HOPE: Watch this

[jnelson66]

I have been through it all with MDD. I can relate to every post in here. I was treatment resistant for a decade. I got Deep brain stimulation surgery last year and am in remission from depression. I would guess it’s FDA approved within a couple of years. The options now if nothing works is to suffer forever or peace out. Just know there is a damn cute coming. I did this podcast last week with the lead Neurologist for the clinical trial Dr Helen Mayberg. Amazing science to end our misery.

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[LifeIsThePitts]

Hey there 🤗 I'm going to listen to this at work today. Still going through TMS treatment every month and I started microdosing Psilocybin 4 wks ago. Will get back to you... thanks for posting this!!

[Existing in reply to LifeIsThePitts]

How were you able to do the micro dosing? On your own? Did you have to order and go through the whole long process for the shrooms? I know my insurance doesn't cover and its expensive.

[LifeIsThePitts in reply to Existing]

youtu.be/qry8K7KPHIQ(Not working as expected?)

This is a link to a podcast from April '23 by Paul Stamets. It is vital information about Psilocybin 🍄

I live in a recreational med marajuana state, NV. Psilocybin mushrooms are not technically legal here but I have a "friend " in the industry that I get them from. I've been participating in a voluntary microdosing self reporting global study since May 2. I put the link to the information below 👇and I learned about the global study by listening to the podcast above.👆

microdose.me/

[LifeIsThePitts]

Hey, John. I finished listening 🎧 to the podcast. I am thrilled to hear you're maintaining remission after nearly a year. I'm zoned in to one TMS session every 4 weeks and I'm currently microdosing Psilocybin mushrooms as an "experiment". I started on May 2nd and the results are pretty significant. I've always had a good result with psychedelics and vape medical marijuana daily for my mental and physical health issues.

I'm really wondering if this would work for me but it's not available in my area yet.

[jnelson66 in reply to LifeIsThePitts]

sounds like you are making progress with the conventional treatments which is amazing. You are finding relief. All amazing. DBS would be if TMS didn’t work and ECT and then it would be the next option (in the future). But it looks like with your current mix there are more good days than bad which is AWESOME. Glad you enjoyed the podcast.

[LifeIsThePitts in reply to jnelson66]

ECT really scared me. I've read extensively about the process and potential side effects. I don't know if I could go through with it. Any thoughts?

I've come to conclude that my depression is not going to go away permanently. I'm struggling through a slump right now and my motivation is nil even with successful treatment. Do you still have these sorts of episodes?

[jnelson66 in reply to LifeIsThePitts]

DBS cured me. Your line above that you conclude it won’t go away is abolished with this procedure. That is why I am posting so much here about it. I had zero hope after trying all and was stuck with misery for as long as I decided to live. There are no disease episodes from depression anymore. The disease is fully out of my body. Completely. From the day after surgery until today. It’s been 10 months. It’s surreal. The only inclusion criteria for the study that I hadn’t done was ECT. I too didn’t want to do it but it’s the gold standard treatment for treatments resistant MDD. But I had zero problem doing it knowing that when I failed I would get into the DBS study. And boy did I fail ECT. Every side effect possible including short term memory loss I received and zero clinical benefit. But I got in. Had surgery. And am cured. That will be our new reality for MDD patients in the future. It doesn’t have to be misery. Check out videos on Parkinson’s disease and DBS and look what it does immediately for those patients. I have a friends mom who just had it for Parkinson’s and she says it moved her back in time 10 years. The key for all of the researchers is finding the specific location in the brain for each disease. Clearly, they have now nailed it with depression.

[Existing]

So, I've been wanting to try this. But I'm not clear what its called, or where to call around, or if my insurance covers. Is it TMS? Or brain stimulation?I don't like those podcasts, just want the info.

[Mofro in reply to Existing]

It's called Deep Brain Stimulation and it's a surgical procedure. If you like to watch videos more than listen to podcasts like I do, just get on YouTube and do a search for it. You should find out what you want to know there.

[jnelson66 in reply to Existing]

youtu.be/KwHFHV9Jfd8(Not working as expected?)

This is the Dr who led my clinical trial and is on the podcast episode with me doing a Ted talk about it on you tube