Comments about ‘New treatment can alleviate major depression’

It would be wonderful if it works. I've been on so many anti depressants I after a while develop a intolerance to it and than its on to something else. Unless one suffers from depression you can never understand what it is like. No wonder Churchill called it the black dog.

@ bobosmom | 11:30 p.m.

"Unless one suffers from depression you can never understand what it is like."

All one can say is "Amen."

@bobosmom: I totally understand where you're coming from. I was on anti-depressants for about 8 years. I'm off them now because I lost my job and insurance coverage in January and could no longer afford the $100+/month meds. I've survived, but only because I switched to a less-stressful job. People that tell me "it's in your head" don't understand clinical depression. The depression isn't caused by circumstances, it's chemical imbalances. A lot of times there isn't anything "WRONG" but you're sad anyway. Life is a chore and you dread dealing with it every day. So thank God for modern medicine that can help, including this new treatment. To those that feel superior and can control it without meds, I have two words for you, but since they aren't nice I can't say it here. :)

This treatment is incredible. It brings the balance needed through the electrical impulses to the individual. This is a great leap for today's medicine to use this kind of complimentary method without the drugs. Bravo!

This is really high tech. What and where is the scientific research to support this? Where did the machine originate, and how did it come to be at the disposal of this doctor? Sounds like what one would read about and find in Europe. Just curious.

This is only one kind of treatment for the depression. More information please about the other kinds of conditions are treatable.

For those of us who have lost loved ones to depression, this is very much appreciated as a Godsend that will not only provide relief but save lives and family relationships.

I'm not dismissing depression - I know it is real. I also know that exercise and eating healthy foods can make a HUGE difference in a person's health. I wonder when more evidence will be brought forward that if we stop eating sugar and processed foods that it can help if not cure many mental illnesses.

Go back to organizing.

Eating healthy and exercise may help you feel better,in the same way that a placebo does, but it isn't going to do diddly squat to stop depression.
All the rabbit food in the universe won't shrink a tumor, why would you expect it to stop depression?

Depression is caused by a disruption of normal brain activity and it strikes as many skinny people as it does fat ones. It is an issue of hormone and chemical production levels. Diet has little or nothing to do with it. Mental illness has been around long before processed foods.

It is not a cause and effect issue. If it were, skinny people wouldn't drop over dead from heart attacks while jogging.

Fat people would be depressed and skinny people would be happy, and you, me, and everyone with any sense at all knows that is not the case.

Bitterman--you ROCK!!!!

That's all I have to say :)

It sounds like a significant step forward. I'm hoping that other treatments for other mental disorders are on the way, so that pharmaceuticals are not the only medically sound way to treat mental illness.

Any progress in treating mental illness can be monumental to the patient and their families.

Wish the article had more in the way of citations or studies that have been done on the method. But am glad that some people are being helped by the method.

Different treatments seem to work for different people. Some respond to changes in diet and exercise, some to counseling, some to medicine (and most to a combination of all three). Wonderful to have another treatment option.

Good that there is discussion about it.