This happens when the brain’s stress and emotion systems become overloaded, leaving a person disconnected from both positive and negative feelings. It’s most commonly linked to depression, anxiety disorders, PTSD, and burnout, and it usually works as a protective response rather than a personal failing. It can show up as flat mood, dulled reactions to […]
According to a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the Journal of Affective Disorders (Rakesh et al., August 2024), According to a naturalistic study published in PLOS ONE (PubMed, 2022), both TMS and intramuscular ketamine produced equally significant reductions in depression and anxiety symptoms in treatment-resistant patients, with no statistically meaningful difference in response or […]
Chronic emptiness is a lasting sense of emotional flatness that shows up after the nervous system has been under pressure for too long. It is not sadness – it is closer to a shutdown, where the brain quiets emotional signals to conserve energy. People who chronically feel empty often describe going through daily life without […]
According to a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the Journal of Affective Disorders (Rakesh et al., August 2024), active TMS combined with antidepressant medication produced significantly greater improvement in major depressive disorder than sham TMS combined with the same medications, with a large effect size that held across multiple trials. That finding points to […]
In everyday clinical practice, the TMS therapy success rate typically falls between 50% and 65% for meaningful symptom response, with remission – meaning symptoms drop to a minimal or non-existent level – occurring in roughly 30% to 40% of patients. These figures come from real-world data collected across treatment centers, not just controlled trials, which […]
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, TMS has received FDA clearance for major depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, smoking cessation, and anxious depression, while MeRT, as of 2025, has not yet received FDA clearance for any specific condition, with its pivotal PTSD trial still under review (FDA Device Database, 2025). That single fact frames […]
Both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are serious eating disorders rooted in a distorted relationship with food, body image, and control. While they share some surface-level similarities, they differ significantly in how they present, what drives them, and how they are treated. Anorexia nervosa involves extreme food restriction and dangerous weight loss, while bulimia nervosa […]
According to a multicenter, double-blind, sham-controlled trial published in the American Journal of Psychiatry (Carmi et al., 2019), deep TMS for OCD produced a 38.1% response rate in the active treatment group versus just 11.1% in the sham group, with improvements sustained at least four weeks after treatment ended. For the estimated 2 to 3% […]
Depression does not always respond to the treatments most people try first. For millions of adults, antidepressants help only partially – or not at all. That gap between what medication can offer and what patients actually need has pushed mental health care toward a different kind of solution: NeuroStar TMS, a non-invasive brain stimulation treatment […]
Two people can feel deeply uncomfortable in their own bodies – and yet be experiencing something entirely different. One is caught in a relentless loop of checking, hiding, and fixating on a perceived flaw nobody else notices. The other feels a persistent, bone-deep mismatch between their body and who they know themselves to be. Both […]
