A FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER APPROACH!
I have to admit that it looks really potty wearing this thing and one feels a lot like Frankenstein's monster in his lab. You clean and clear your forehead and then, using a blue tooth app on your phone which has to remain nearby, you place saline soaked pads against your forehead. Then your phone goes to selfie mode in order to check the placement of the pads. You scream because you look like your mum/dad and that's scary. Hubby has taken to looking at my phone and seeing himself and screaming so I don't have to (I've got used to attaching it in the right place). This home based treatment lasts for half an hour every day for the first three weeks. After that it's every weekend.
You're warned that it may feel itchy, or even burn a little, but most patients adjust to it pretty quickly. I certainly did. There was a definite slightly burning sensation, then an itch, and on the second night, it itched like bonkers. I couldn't wait for it to finish, then I scratched my forehead like mad, but that hasn't happened again. Now it's a mild fizzy sensation and it's helping my mental help enormously.
To start at the beginning, where I should have started anyway...
I've suffered depression for well over forty years, on and off, ever since the births of my two kids. I wasn't made for motherhood, and they've survived despite me. I'm a creative artist, writer and adventurous minded bod who's fascinated by the wild west and the paranormal among many other subjects (I'm a renaissance soul in other words - Leonardo Di Vinci is my hero).
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I've self-published the first two novels of my epic western trilogy, Alias Jeannie Delaney - Book 1 - Go West, Girl! & Book 2 - The Outlaw's Return. I wanted to write it - I had to write it - I had no choice. I didn't know it at the time but I was writing about who I wanted to be to prove myself to my emotionally neglectful parents and siblings. But it literally did my head in. I've been on anti-depressants ever since, and most of them really helped.
Recently, however, in my desperation to 'get Jeannie (my protagonist) out there', wherever 'out there' is, most days in recent times I was pretty tearful. I wanted her 'out there' to show readers that women could be the hero in traditional westerns too, since my fascination for the wild west evolved when I was young, particularly the roles played by the wilder, cheroot chompin', gun totin' gals.
Going back two years ago I came across the Flow Neuroscience Headset, but at the time we passed it over as possible quackery. This time, however, I saw it again last autumn. It had been backed by the NHS, and the patient recovery rate was 77%. I was impressed and showed it to science-minded husband. This time, although the NHS no longer prescribed it here in Hampshire, but will do so in five years (too long to wait), we decided it was worth a try. It costs £400 but that's nothing if you can afford it and it gives you improved mental health.
The headset works by sending a gentle electrical charge through the pads into your mood-controlling Hippocampus, which sits at the front of your brain. A gentle stimulation helps to restore healthy brain activity. The headset is backed by over 30 years of research and clinical evidence to show it is safe and effective.
It won't work immediately - these things take time, and it won't work for everybody, but I can honestly say that I feel better and calmer than I've felt for a very long time. Hubby says I don't shout at him so much. I jolly well hope not! So yes, it does work. The great thing about it is that there are no drugs involved, nothing taken internally, nothing injected, no nasty side effects. Just a simple, gentle electrical charge. I would say it's a game-changer for those who suffer depression. Let's hope so.
ME!
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SAMPLE BOOK 1 - GO WEST, GIRL! |
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SAMPLES BOOK 2 - THE OUTLAW'S RETURN |
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