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Re: Explain this

Posted by Psychquackery on August 25, 2003, at 17:02:38

In reply to The depression competition , posted by linkadge on August 25, 2003, at 14:48:11

First of all I would like to say that at one time years ago I was just as enthusiastic about rTMS as some of you are. When I did it, back in 1999, it wsa being touted as a possible "replacement" for ECT. Basically ECT without a convulsion, without electricity, without anesthesthia, etc. Boy did that sound good to me. So I did it. And it did have a little AD effect but nothing remotely what was needed. In short it pooped out just like the antidepressants did. In fact, I thought plain old Effexor XR had more antidepressant effect than rTMS did.

Several of the workers at the rTMS site made some offhand comments to me about "rTMS not working good" and "Id still need ECT." Well at the time I blew that off but over time I thought about it. I wasnt getting any better.

Those rTMS researcher people know rTMS doesnt work good. They know it. Yet they continue to keep pushing it. They keep pushing it as some sort of possible futuristic replacement for ECT. Thats bull. It will never achieve the efficacy of ECT.

You tell me how something that only stimulates the outer cortex of the brain is going to significantly help severe depression, much less treatment resistant depression?!? I will tell you...it wont. And the latest article by Dr. Mark George in Scientific American even admits this shortcoming of rTMS.

I am just acting as a backstop for all the bad rumors and misinformation on the Internet regarding treatments for major depression. Magnets have been touted as a cure for everything at one time or another and frequently been associated with quackery. Unfortunately, I believe rTMS will go down in history as another aberration in psychiatric experiments...as another psychiatric quackery tool. Psychiatry by its very nature is full of quackery...the whole field has been heavily associated with quackery since its inception.

ECT on the other hand has been proven to clinically work. Thats my point. I am concerned naiive individuals may attempt to do rTMS and waste valuable time and money when they should really be biting the bullet and doing ECT.

ECT might not be as palatable but it DOES work. rTMS does NOT work. The studies show this.

Igor


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