"how does that even work?" they don't know, they just know it does
"what is it doing?" using magnets to tickle a certain part of your brain til you're less sad
"what's that part of your brain do?" they don't know but it's underactive in depressed people
"so they just tickle it until... what?" until it's less underactive
"and that makes you less depressed??" listen pal i wouldn't have believed it either. but it worked.
i had, no exaggeration, the most treatment-resistant case of severe clinical depression that every single doctor i saw had ever seen. more than two dozen clinicians described me this way independent of one another.
i did 30 days of TMS and i was better. it's like fucking magic. and you get to wear this dope ass magneto helmet that goes bzzzzzzz when it's on