The Treatment That Took My Anxiety From 8 to 1

TL;DR

Accelerated TMS combined with D-cycloserine dropped the speaker's anxiety from 8/10 to near zero in one day, lasting months.

Key Points

• 1.Accelerated TMS compresses months of treatment into days. The SAINT protocol (developed at Stanford by Nolan Williams) delivers 10 sessions per day, hourly, over 5 days, achieving 70–80% remission of depression with durable results.
• 2.The speaker has diagnosed moderate-severe OCD with ruminative thought loops. Symptoms rated 7–8 out of 10 affected every aspect of his life — causing insomnia, fatigue, and depression downstream from anxiety.
• 3.First accelerated TMS course produced near-miraculous results. After a 2–3 week delayed onset, he experienced zero anxiety and zero rumination for 3–4 months — surpassing results from psychedelic-assisted therapies.
• 4.D-cycloserine (DCS), an old antibiotic, acted as a neuroplasticity catalyst. Pre-dosing with DCS before a single day of accelerated TMS produced results equal to or better than what previously required 3–4 months of conventional TMS.
• 5.Intermittent ketosis and metabolic psychiatry round out his protocol. Harvard's Chris Palmer and others have documented ketogenic approaches addressing psychiatric conditions resistant to medication, complementing the TMS and DCS combination.