Many times, patients with depression also experience a significant amount of anxiety. When anxiety and depression are present together, this is called anxious depression. It is caused by malfunctions in a few different areas of your brain. The nerve synapses (connections) in those areas are functioning poorly or not at all, leaving you feeling depressed and anxious.
About half of patients with depression report significant anxiety. Together, the two issues will significantly affect your quality of life. You may have a difficult time finding an effective treatment when you struggle with a higher level of impairment in your day-to-day life.
Prescription medications along with talk therapy can treat anxious depression, but a significant portion of anxious, depressed patients will have poor response to treatment or cannot deal with the side effects. When you want a better option for treatment, consider TMS therapy for anxious depression in Miami. You can add it to current treatments or use it instead of medications. The expert staff at Infinity Life Wellness Center can help you decide if TMS could work for you.
Specific areas in your brain control moods. Sometimes, the nerve cell synapses (connections) do not function normally and are underactive or do not appear to be work at all. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) therapy for anxious depression in Miami could reawaken these poorly functioning synapses and return your mood to normal.
The Infinity Life Wellness Center uses the NeuroStar Advanced TMS therapy system. It uses a handheld device that generates magnetic pulses that create minute electrical impulses in the treatment areas of your brain. These impulses, in turn, stimulate and reawaken poorly functioning synapses.
TMS is physically mild but psychologically strong. Because it is not harsh, side effects are minimal. Only the specific areas of your brain that do not function well are affected, rather than your whole head or entire body. Side effects like a mild headache that appear with your first few treatments rarely continue throughout your entire treatment cycle.
While NeuroStar TMS treatments require special equipment, they can be done in our office. You will be wide awake and comfortable during your treatments. Many patients read or scroll on their phones during their treatment. Treatments are administered in daily twenty-minute sessions for about six or seven weeks.
At the start of your session, your TMS treatment specialist will gently hold the NeuroStar device against your head over specific areas of your brain known to be involved in anxiety and depression. You might feel a tapping or tingling sensation right under the device while it is working, but this disappears once your treatment session is complete. The magnets will make a clicking sound that can be loud, especially so near to your ears, so we will provide earplugs.
You do not need to worry about concentration problems or memory loss due to this form of treatment. Patients routinely return to their regular activities, including work, immediately after a TMS therapy session for anxious depression in Miami. If you develop a mild headache, over-the-counter pain relievers will take care of it. Any facial muscle twitching that you might experience during treatment stops once the session ends. As you continue through your treatment cycle you will have fewer side effects.
For patients with depression accompanied by anxiety who do not respond well to traditional prescription medications, TMS therapy can be a viable option. Data from theNeuroStar Advanced Therapy Outcomes Registry has shown that 65.5 percent of patients with anxious depression felt improvement in their symptoms. In a study of depression patients who had failed multiple medications, patients treated with NeuroStar TMS therapy were four times more likely to reach remission than those not receiving TMS.
If you have not found a treatment plan that is working for your anxious depression, call Infinity Life Wellness Center to set up a consultation so that you can meet with one of our highly trained and experienced mental health providers. You will be able to discuss what has not worked for you, then talk about what NeuroStar TMS therapy for anxious depression in Miami can do for you. We can answer your questions and create a treatment plan that will work for you.