A Mind of Your Own: The Truth About Depression and How Women Can Heal Their Bodies to Reclaim Their Lives

by Kelly Brogan

While I am most interested in root-cause resolution of what we are calling depression and anxiety resulting from food intolerances, sugar imbalance, thyroid autoimmunity, nutrient deficiency, and stress, I often present my patients with alternative options for more immediate symptom relief. I have been prescribing the Fisher Wallace Cranial Electrical Stimulator (CES), a device that generates a low-intensity alternating current that is transmitted across the skull, for many years now (I have no financial relationship with this company). I have come to think of it as meditation in a gadget. It was cleared by the FDA in 1979 and works from the premise that we are energetic beings and that accessing the body’s ability to recalibrate can come in many different forms. The recommendation is to use it for twenty minutes twice daily to promote alpha wave activity and to modulate neurotransmitters, endorphins, and cortisol.26 My patients who try it typically use it regularly for three weeks and then as needed.