Is This Really “Treatment?” Clinics Are Selling Brain Shock Gimmicks to Struggling Adolescents
Republished with permission from AbleChild.
It’s called Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and it is exploding across psychiatry, sold as a “safe, non-drug” answer for depression, anxiety, OCD, addiction, and more. In reality, it is a fast-growing business that shifts people from powerful mind-altering drugs to powerful electromagnetic shocks to specific targeted brain tissue, without ever proving what abnormality it is “treating.”
AbleChild saw this up close in Wyoming, where a TMS-invested psychiatrist tried to shut down a basic reform: full toxicology testing in violent deaths. Lawmakers were considering a bill to require post-mortem testing for psychiatric drugs in cases like the murder-suicide of Tranyelle Harshman and the Covenant school shooting in Nashville. AbleChild argued that without hard numbers on psychiatric drug levels on the deceased, it is impossible to honestly opine whether these drugs helped, harmed, or triggered the violent behavior.
The behavioral-health establishment pushed back. A state coroner and medical examiner told legislators that “10 to 1 if you are taking your psych meds correctly you won’t die,” then focused on stigma talking points instead of real science. AbleChild was the only organization to publicly contest the psychiatric establishment: test the blood or stop pretending these drugs are automatically protective. That hearing in Wyoming laid the fault lines bare: either let the data speak the truth or let the industry keep making safety claims it never has proven.
The fight over psychiatric drug data goes straight to the heart of TMS. TMS is not a spa gadget. A coil is pressed to the scalp and fires strong, rapidly changing magnetic pulses into the brain (electrical shocks), reportedly forcing neurons to fire over and over in targeted regions and healing depression.
TMS sessions are repeated day after day and adverse effects include headache, scalp pain, facial twitching, dizziness, fatigue, and seizures as known risks, especially for those patients already on multiple psychiatric drugs or with other brain or medical problems. No one can tell families what repeated rounds of this direct brain interference mean for heavily medicated, still-developing young people, yet the industry hides behind calming words like “non-drug” and “non-invasive” to keep the business growing.
The FDA has approved TMS for adolescents aged 15-21 as an adjunct treatment, meaning it is used alongside therapy or medication. If TMS is used on children younger than 15, that procedure is off-label, not approved by the FDA.
Meanwhile, regulators have cleared TMS for teens with so-called “treatment-resistant depression” after drug regimens fail. That label turns failed treatment into a problem in the patient, not the system. Instead of asking whether misdiagnosis, polypharmacy, drug-induced agitation, akathisia, or reckless dose changes played a role, psychiatry renames the crisis as “resistance” and pushes the next step up the ladder: more drugs, then electrical devices.
In that light, it is no surprise that a TMS-invested psychiatrist would resist strong toxicology testing of mass killers. Careful blood-level data on antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and combinations could show that some perpetrators were on high, shifting, or dangerously interacting “therapeutic” doses at the time of the deadly act. The levels of psychiatric drugs in the system would bring into question whether the violence was treatment-induced agitation, disinhibition, or collapse, not simply “untreated mental illness.” Once families, juries, and lawmakers can see dose spikes, abrupt switches, and risky stacks of drugs, blame no longer lands only on “the illness.” It lands on prescribers, guidelines, and now electric shock gimmicks.
The money behind this push is huge. The TMS boom is not organic; it is driven by a global device industry and branded clinic networks like Stella that turn drug-injured brains into revenue streams. One major TMS maker now reports nearly $150 million a year in revenue from its TMS platform and clinic network.
Stella sits at the sharp end of this business model, packaging ketamine, esketamine, and TMS into high-priced “treatment-resistant” bundles and helping normalize invasive, poorly studied brain interventions for vulnerable patients, including teens, while investors and device partners profit from every failed step up the psycho-pharma drug-and-device ladder.
Now this industry is showing up in the hottest corners of public life. It appears not only in state hearings where real reform is on the table, but even, as AbleChild reported, in the form of a TMS technician walking through the assassination crime scene in the Charlie Kirk investigation. It is unsettling to see where this TMS magnet deep brain stimulation branding keeps turning up.
All of these strands lead to one basic demand. A powerful, international neuromodulation industry, tied to ketamine chains like Stella and backed by serious capital, is reshaping psychiatry around high-tech brain interventions while fighting the one safeguard that could finally answer whether its own drugs and devices sometimes help create the disasters it later claims to treat. The answer is simple and long overdue: test the blood, tell the truth, and let the evidence speak for itself.
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PSYCHIATRY…………WHAT A HOOT.
Quacks making money off the misery of others.
Thus leading to even more misery
-CLINICS ARE SELLING BRAIN SHOCK GIMMICKS TO STRUGGLING ADOLESCENTS-
It’s all about the bottom line with these hucksters. And the bottom line is the almighty dollar.
Please, God, an intervention.
THIS CAN ONLY BE USED (read article) IF YOU ALREADY DESTROYED THE CHILD WITH CHEMICALS AND PROPAGANDA (medication and therapy)
HAVEN'T THEY DONE ENOUGH DAMAGE TO THIS CHILD ALREADY?
Just give them lobotomies
Next on the agenda. Just wait a year or so.
Just give them Jesus!
Maranatha.
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
An actual history class would be a brain shock for most younger Americans.
I am old enough to remember when a hard spanking cured most kids emotional issues…
Yeppers. Many parents today are afraid of their kids. They might get mad at the word "no." Don't want that.
That's why we have adults throwing actual fits and tantrums in public. And they are raising kids themselves.
Lobotomy will help, with what ails them
Would need to be done through microscope surgery
That censorship thing on the Idaho murderer I was talking about…..just happened again on my newest revision. These “quack” monitors on here are a real piece of work.
More LIberal Quackery
All Democrats should be forced to take these treatments. Might even help 'em think straight for a change.
Just look at Fetterman. He got smarter after his brain damage.
He got rid of his mini-me.
I had head that electroshock therapy was back in vogue. Anyone remember how it was such a horrible thing when they did it to Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
The medical industrial complex.
Follow the money.
Wasn't this outlawed like in the 1920s or so they used electric shock treatments in the "asylums"
Still in use today. Much less frequently though. Witnessed one while in nursing school.
But can it cure TDS?
These people are truly evil.. as witnessed during the covid injection scam.
Sick Medical industry destroying our kids like they have always done!
A dollar store Mirror should be sufficiently shocking with most trans crazies
Not really. It's more like this, "Hey doll. You come here often?"
The frankensteins at Stanford tried to get my dad to go along with the zapping. My dad was an electrical engineer. He said no.
If it worked for Ernest Hemingway, then…
Oh, wait…
It DIDN'T work for Hemingway.
Sounds like fiction has become reality. Jack Nicholson starred in a movie about this very treatment. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
Great movie
We are almost at the ending, ourselves.
Electro-Shock therapy.
The story is fiction but the treatments were factual.
ECT is different treatment and still used in some cases of depression in adults, but only after medication and other therapy has been proven ineffective. It's horrifying that TMS is being done on children with developing brains, plus concurrent with medications. There are no known long term studies as to what brain damage may be caused in later life by this polytreatment.
ROFLMAO, This is awesome.
"Is This Really “Treatment?” Clinics Are Selling Brain Shock Gimmicks to Struggling Adolescents."
No, it's not treatment.
It's quackery at its apex.
They are finding another avenue to make money now that gender affirming care is no longer popular
Didn't Pence support this type of stuff for shocking the gay out of people?
Pure EVIL, being it is of the DEVIL, America does NOT have HEALTHCARE today, it is about WEALTHCARE, the WEALTH of the MEDICAL FIELD & PHARMASUTICAL INDUSTRY at the expense of OUR Health.!!!
I’m as conservative as they come. TMS saved my life. It’s easy for one to be outraged over psych meds if they’ve never needed treatment. I would have tried anything to get out of that bottomless pit.
I am a big fan of what the Hofts do generally, but they are guilty sometimes of chitting on something just for clicks.
"I was cured alright":
A Clockwork Orange (December 19, 1971)
The parents probably need lobotomies …
Years ago a boot in the butt worked wonders. Cheap too.
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Are they back to bloodletting, too?
Is it possible these kids are effed up due to lousy parenting skills?
Child abuse! Dissolve the FDA for approving and imprison the clinicians who "treat" Mengele style.
The struggling teens just need to eat more meat. Beef cures mental illness and people have been brainwashed not to eat it. Research beef and mental illness.
Is this the same as electroshock therapy?
Another name for lobotomy.
We would all be shocked if we only knew how many gimmicks were being perpetrated on American people. Foxnews airs plenty of them every day.
I'd rather have a Bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
Old joke.
Oh really? I am pretty sure that I made it up just this second.
I seen it in the early 80s printed on a beer cooler.
Maybe this treatment could work for TDS.
Electroshock is a very old mental health treatment but it works very well for needy persons..
Treatment using electricity has been proven successful many times but I wouldn't trust a single modern practitioner to implement the treatment correctly.
The only thing our kids need that’s missing in their development is Jesus
The way to find out is to ask for detailed proof and explanation of the method of action and to provide the studies (plural) tbat support the claim.
Of course they cannot …. so yes its more deviant psychiatric nonsense.
It should be sold as a package along with a bag of snake heads and a rabbits foot
The Ludovico technique.
this stuff is insane……..that is not a treatment for any mental condition
Countdown to the sciencey left bragging about how many of their "trans" kids are also lobotomized and have gone through shock therapy.
They've managed to sell way too many people on the benefits of adolescent mastectomies and castrations, so it's not that far fetched that they would latch onto this barbarianism.
Can we juice it up for the purple haired banshees?
Everyone should be skeptical about new forms of technology, especially regarding the brain, because some can help, while others can harm.
As more devices involving brain-computer interfaces (BCI) come to market, where you're using your brain to control your computer or some functions of it, instead of your hands, strengthening your mind using devices like transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) will become more widely used.
You can already buy games that use brain-computer interfaces, and the gov't has been building the technology into warfighter helmets…
They practiced this barbarism on my grandmother in the 1960s. Nobody ever thought to look at her diet or terrible social problems
I sure hope the photo accompanying this article is AI – either way it is a graphic depiction of child abuse.
What's next, Jamaican voodoo doll witch doctors?
ShouId try on poIiticians
I can tell you exactly what I got out of these treatments when I lost dad, grandma and grandpa as a young man. I got very angry at the world and the next thing I knew I was in a straightjacket on the 5th floor of a local hospital… three months of shock treatments, BS therapy and I soon realized the only way out was lie my behind off!
The take away was an education/punishment all in one, for being a child, and missing my best people, but the shock treatments were devastatingly bad for a boy and eventually created a man that doesn't accept just any reason without a certain amount of physical/painful/inquiring insights.
The old “Shah of Iran” used to do that type of “therapy”, but now they’ve turned his “treatment center” into the museum of torture.
Lithium
cheaper to just have them lick the terminals on a 9v battery.
My next oldest brother did that when he was in middle school. Repeatedly. He did a lot of weird things. It did not improve anything about him.
Sounds a lot like the old shock treatments that were pushed in the 60's. My mom took my sister to a psychiatrist for running away from home at 16. He recommended shock treatments. She has never been the same :(
I didn't get shock treatments just a good swift kick in the ass.
Wow… My mom did it for free… A good slap in the head always worked wonders to motivate me.
Exactly and the old beating with a paddle and the Big One, Wait until your Dad gets home, didn't really take me too long to figure TIHS out and they did not raise me as their friend, they were my parents and I was their child, period end of story and guess what I still love them both. Miss ya Mom and Dad, tell God I said hello. Love y'all
So they're bringing back shock treatments to the brain for nonconformists. This time for confused teenagers. Have enough years passed that people don't remember the disaster this was from the first time around?
The dumbing down of America.
Frontal Lobotomy works wonders at calming their a
down.
So does Thorzine.
Sounds like a great idea for Somali healthcare..
It's cheaper if they just stick their tongue on a knife stuck in an electrical outlet.
First they hook children on iPhones to the point where they can no longer concentrate in school, then they pervert children's minds by telling them they can regender, then they flood them with sexual perversions in the books they read, then they bring in full-on perverts in drag to show them how much fun it can be, then they tell them their parents have no say in their rearing, then they drug them when they become confused, and now they are pushing brain altering shock treatments which will be followed by the state euthanizing them to put them out of their misery. What a F'd up world they/we are living in.
Sounds like a mini lobotomy.
Can all Demonrats have their brains reprogrammed?
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Look for lobotomies to make a comeback and after that the wide-spread adoption of assisted suicide [the ultimate treatment for 'treatment resistant depression"] across blue states.
Follow the money trail.
Plus a great way to treat all that tranny butchery when it all goes rotten.
The drugs they need to be looking at is the testosterone and other steroids these women trying to be men are taking. Women's bodies weren't made to handle that much of it, and they become veryyy violent.
Commie Dims need some brain shock therapy.
That should be tried on brain dead leftists.
Shock Treatment 2.0; this is the upgrade psychs have been waiting for.
There has always been something to this. Before that we just slapped people silly.
But will it cure TDS?
Next it will be laser lobotomies.
Brought to you by the highly suspect banch of medicine called Psychiatry.
I got a cure for some of the adolescent mental troubles. Stop telling them the world is going to end because of climate change. Stop telling them they might be born the wrong gender. Stop telling them that the orange man is going to start WWIII, stop telling them they can have sex with whoever they want, stop telling them that there is not God. Stop lying to the kids and stealing their hope.
,,,,safe, just like covid shots were,,,,,duh,,,,
There's NOTHING IN THERE TO SHOCK!!
Exactly, just back to the good old days of beating their sessa even in public and tell the sissy parents to STFU and mind their own buisness.
…..And an industry is precisely what it it is.
Never forget that fact, because those profiting within the industry are experts at behavioral science; using rhetorical reframing to manipulate others.
Here is a better treatment, start when they are young, teach them respect, discipline, manners, responsibility. When they get out of line BEAT their SSA and tell them what they did wrong at the exact moment it happened, correct them on the spot even if you're in public, then when you get home you BEAT their SSA so that they understand that is not the correct way to behave. Also raise them as your children and quit being their best friend and quit giving them everything they want and DO NOT be afraid of them HATING you for it, You're their parents NOT their FRIENDS
Jesus is the answer for " sold as a safe, non-drug” answer for depression, anxiety, OCD, addiction, and more.
Only the blood of Jesus. 1 Tim 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil…
Maranatha.
Electro shock therapy works people , if the adolescent or young adult doesn't get it now….he or she will have a cop taze him/ her later!! And we've all seen how an attitude adjuster those tazers can be.
The pills are bullcrap just like the electro shock, stop it all and go outside and ride a bike.