Today’s depression treatments don’t help everyone
Some people desperate for help have turned to experimental brain implants
After years of unsuccessful treatments, deep brain stimulation helped pull Amanda out of depression.
Benjamin Norman
Electricity Saved My Brain
This is the second part in a series on deep brain stimulation for depression. Read from the beginning.
[Content note: This story contains discussion of suicide.]
Jon Nelson’s depression was poison. “I had poison in every single bit of my body. It literally ran throughout every cell in my body. My blood carried the poison, and it crushed everything in me.