FDA approved some new device to combat depression

[Rubyred356]

This device is named Flow's FL-100.
This is a at home device that in some technical way will push some kind of wireless signals to the brain to assist with the mitigation of depression.

I can't figure how to make a direct link to the Reuters article I just read. But apparently this will be the new norm,  for better or worse this is the reality we love in.

[David64]

This device is named Flow's FL-100.
This is a at home device that in some technical way will push some kind of wireless signals to the brain to assist with the mitigation of depression.

I can't figure how to make a direct link to the Reuters article I just read. But apparently this will be the new norm,  for better or worse this is the reality we love in.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthc...025-12-11/

[quintessentone]

It looks to be some sort of electrical shock treatment. What could go wrong?

[David64]

It looks to be some sort of electrical shock treatment. What could go wrong?

I've got the helmet on, just lemme plug this in and........

[Rubyred356]

If I remember correctly shock treatment was acceptable in some instances.
I am not sure how healthy this will be in the long term but when has the world ever known the long term affects? I actually do not think we will ever know till after the bads are known.
That you David for and Quintesstone for the support on my first thread.

[quintessentone]

I've got the helmet on, just lemme plug this in and........

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But how can it mend a lonely or broken heart?

Their ad could be 'broken heart? Put on the helmet and fugget about it'.

[argentus]

It sounds similar to a TENS unit, as it talked about pads drying out and not working (losing conductivity).   I have and use a TENS for pain control.   It is particularly useful for joint and muscle pain.   The literature with it advises not to use it on your skull or across the spinal cord.   I would guess that this FLOW unit differs from TENS by being precisely calibrated to use the kind of pulse and frequency for the purpose described.   Very interesting!

[andy06shake]

This device is named Flow's FL-100.
This is a at home device that in some technical way will push some kind of wireless signals to the brain to assist with the mitigation of depression.

I can't figure how to make a direct link to the Reuters article I just read. But apparently this will be the new norm,  for better or worse this is the reality we love in.

It's just another gadget through.

If we wish to realistically tackle depression.

We need to treat the cause, not just the symptoms.

That means looking at the underlying pressures people face, like stress, isolation, trauma, poor sleep, money worries, lack of purpose.

Medication and therapy can help.

But they're only part of the picture.

[Rubyred356]

As society progresses or as technology does the same, it appears to me that we have no other choice but to accept these kind of changes.
Long gone are the old ways of just rub dirt.

[BeyondKnowledge]

I remember that from one of Dad's old science fiction books. It is a tasp. The users are called wire heads. 

It started out as a contact pleasure stimulator for mental stimulation. It was used as a drug. It made you happy. Then someone got the idea of making it into a gun like device with a short range. If they used that on you, there was a high probability that you were hooked on it forever. 

The wire heads would just sit around hooked up and pressing the button to get a hit. They only wanted batteries for the device after that. Sometimes it only took one exposure to get a person hooked until they died from hunger. They would not eat because they felt no hunger except for the tasp.