Neuron Wants to Work Anymore (TMS fund)

I’ve been told I should ask for help when I need it and not be ashamed so here goes.

Most of you know that I have been dealing with mental health challenges since I was a teenager. I have what they call Treatment Resistant, Cyclical Major Depressive Disorder. In the past 35 years I have been on more than two dozen different medications, always hopeful one might work. Sometimes they do, sort of, and I am functional for months or even years at a time, until I am not. They inevitably stop working, or I max out the allowable dose. I've done and still do every kind of therapy there is; again it works, except for when it doesn't.

So, I've graduated to a newish technology called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), which entails 36 DAILY 20 minute sessions of sending magnetic pulses into my frontal lobe in the hopes that it will spark the lazy neurons that have been laying down on the job to get up and make something of themselves.

You may also recall that I was hurt on the job last year and lost my health insurance. I do have a marketplace plan, but it doesn't go very far. And at the moment I am not allowed to return to work and still haven't been approved to have my ankle surgically repaired. AND I have been trying mightily to overcome writer's block all the while.

The TMS sessions would cost me $50-$100 out of pocket each time. Every day. For 6 weeks. To do this, I'm gonna need help. So I'm humbly asking for you to support this, um, neuron employment development project.

I know times are hard for everyone and there are a lot of more worthy causes than this that need funding, but if you choose to give or lend anything, please know how much it - and YOU - are appreciated.