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Originally Posted by splitimage
My pdoc, is thinking of referring me for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Does anyone have any experience with it, and can tell me what it's like?
Thanks.
splitimage
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Hi splitimage, I haven't done it myself, but there is a wikipedia page about it including a description of some risks.
I am going to make a suggestion now that might sound crazy, but it's totally safe and I think it's actually related to TMS. These notes describe a little game that you can play where you make lots of tiny decisions and snap your fingers:
http://egg.bu.edu/~youssef/SNAP_CLUB/BA.pdf
At least sometimes, this has a *huge* positive effect if you have depression as with Freewilled, for instance:
http://forums.psychcentral.com/4715237-post156.html
Now, when they do TMS for depression, they stimulate the left "dorsolateral prefrontal cortex". Now, guess what this part of your brain does? It's the part of your brain that activates when you make decisions and take actions! It thus appears to me that if you do the SNAP CLUB game, you are stimulating exactly the part of your brain that they would be stimulating with a TMS session, except it's safe and even fun and you can do it all day long.

- vital