How a £400 brain zapper finally helped me conquer my depression: ANNE ATKINS suffered for 30 years and nothing worked - until she tried the headset now being rolled out on the NHS By ANNE ATKINS FOR THE DAILY MAIL Published: 01:32, 12 November 2024 | Updated: 01:32, 12 November 2024 e-mail View comments Finally, I admitted it. Crying all day. Staring blindly out of windows.
Incapable of the most basic tasks. Waking with the weight of the whole dark sky on my head, only to long for night so I could go back to bed. Depression .
I had become completely incapacitated. Six months earlier my science tutor daughter had challenged my fierce opposition to medication as blind prejudice. Now a close and kind friend pitched in, urging me to do something, anything, to get help.
The truth is that over the years, I've tried most things, writes Anne Atkins. I've lost count of the therapists. The best I can say is that some haven't harmed me 'Anne, I just want your life to be better.
' 'I'm going to the GP,' I later told my dearest husband. 'To ask for antidepressants.' 'Good idea.
' Is that all? To this bombshell? For three decades I'd resisted the little white pills, having seen the terrible devastation they can do. Our bright, brilliant daughter developed severe OCD in her early teens and her first hospitalisation, with its loopy therapy (a story for another day), complete lack of sense such as removing all exercise for both body and mind – and force-feeding of medication – rendered her.
