The story presented are the real experiences of individuals battling depression. They've provided their stories as a resource to others battling the same affliction.

- My name is Karen, I was born in Toronto, Ontario Canada, And I came to New York City in 1995 to study social work. I've been a professional psychotherapist for the last 22 years, I guess. And I came on my 49th birthday, June 4th 2014, very, very depressed and even with many thoughts of not wanting to continue my life. And TMS in essence saved me. It's been incredible. I didn't actually believe it could help because I was so desperate, but Dr. McMullen was just, he would not stop in treating me, he would not give up on me, and it became such that now I'm as cured as anyone could pretty much get. I have almost no sympathetic pressure, and if so, only very rarely. I take only a couple of medications versus many I took before, and they've only been helping. And now I've turned my life around so completely that I help other people to a great extent. I work full-time as a psychotherapist, and I also have a part-time job as an online psychotherapist. I help other people, I'm able to use my experience to help other people, and I do believe if it were not for Dr. McMullen and TMS I would either not be here today or my quality of life would be so low and I'd be on disability, unable to work and I'd be so incredibly miserable that I would just have virtually no existence, no existence, or no meaningful existence. And now I find my life full of quite a bit of meaning. I may be not the cheerfullest or most joyful person in the world, but I have a deep sense of profound satisfaction, meaning in life, purpose for living and that was all given back to me. And, well, given to me actually for the first time. So, I'm very grateful. I think Dr. McMullen is an incredible doctor. He's a real metch. He's very generous and very caring towards his patients. At times, when I felt like I was just going to give up completely, didn't even want to return for treatment, he basically as much as was needed bossed me around and insisted that I return, so I did. And he was relentless until I got better. So, I'm not sure what else I can say, but he's a lifesaver and this treatment, I had tried ECT, I had tried all types of medication, including ones rarely prescribed. I had tried many forms of psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, dialectical behavior. I'd been hospitalized many times. I'd had a trauma treatment program. But nothing really worked to be effective as this is now. And in fact, I'm so much better, that I'm able to deal with some deeper rooted issues I had psycho-dynamically in therapy, which I wasn't even able to touch before because I was just dealing with plain old symptoms of depression. And now that they're off the table, I'm free to work through some things which have been bothering me for a long time and I'm changing my whole persona. It's like I'm a new person. And I'm able to not only give to others but give to myself and I see the trajectory of my life being completely different now. And, I'm not a spring chicken, I'll be 52 in June, but I figure I still have some time left on this planet and the time I left I'm going to be making up for any time lost with great strides. So, I thank Dr. McMullen with all my heart.

- [Interviewer] When you was first diagnosed, for depression?

- I was a teenager.

- [Interviewer] A teenager.

- I was a teenager, and I suffered from many other physical and mental illnesses as well, but my depression was pretty much recalcitrant until three years ago.

- [Interviewer] Wow, so how many, how many treatments do you end up Dr. McMullen? When did TMS start to help you?

- It started to work, it really took, I had very, very refractory depression. So, the TMS, usually the treatment is 30 sessions, but I didn't even budge after 30 sessions. And then I had kind of a reemergence, where I started to feel better, and then I felt worse again. Overall, it took I think, between 100 and 120 sessions for me to get fully on the road again. And so that's several months. And then, I think a few months after that I really started to emerge from my depression. Probably around January, 2015. So about nine months after I started. And then the emergence was real and permanent.

- [Interviewer] Wow.

- And to me, that's pretty incredibly fast considering how bad I really was. I was off the charts bad.

- [Interviewer] Thank you very much.

- [Man] Thank you.

- [Interviewer] Thank you very much for telling the story. Thank you.

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