Happiness is part of an overall healthy outlook on life, but it’s not always easy to maintain. Being happy isn’t just about an accomplishment, a stroke of luck, or a chance encounter; instead, it’s about how things you encounter daily can affect your positive way of seeing the world.
Your outlook is largely controlled by your mood. Whether you’re happy, sad, anxious, or angry, your mood helps to determine how you view a situation and how you cope with it. And dealing with mood disorders, which are forms of mental illness, can make it hard to feel joy, elation, or anything positive.
If you’re dealing with mood disorders or other forms of mental illness and medications or therapy don’t seem to be enough, it’s time to consider transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) therapy. Let’s look at ways to better understand mental illness, the effects it can have on your mood, and how TMS therapy can help.
People looking for ways to improve their mood or get relief from mental health issues can get help from the experienced team at Vital TMS Therapy. We work with a small group of patients to devote our full attention to caring for your individual needs. We also specialize in TMS therapy for treating a variety of conditions.
Understanding mental illness
Mental illness is a term that is often misunderstood and covers a wide variety of conditions that affect your mental health. Any condition that creates a need or desire to think or feel in a way that is adverse or uncharacteristic is likely a mental illness. These include eating disorders, anxiety disorders, addictive behaviors, and depression.
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in five adults (or 51.5 million people) in the United States experienced some form of mental health condition in 2019 alone. In the same year, one in twenty adults (13.1 million people) had a serious mental health issue and 3.8% of adults (9.5 million people) had problems with both mental health and substance abuse.
The effects they have on your mood
Any issue that affects your mental health can affect your mood. Some common symptoms of mental illness include mood changes, including sadness, anxiousness, intense mood swings, paranoia, anger, suicidal thoughts, and a desire to withdraw from others. If the issues are intense enough, they can lead to social isolation, conflicts in personal relationships, drug abuse, missing work or school, and self-harm.
How TMS therapy can help
The method of stimulating areas of your brain with magnetic pulses is used for treating a variety of mental health issues and other conditions. The treatment targets nerve cells, helps to improve neurological and mental conditions, and can help to improve mood by focusing pulses in key areas of the brain (motor cortex, prefrontal cortex, temporoparietal cortex, striatum, and others).
The process relieves symptoms of depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety, and other issues that directly affect how you feel.
Happiness is something we all want, and when you’re dealing with mental illness, it can be a difficult task. TMS therapy can help by not just putting you in a better mood but also helping to improve your outlook on your life. If you’re ready to see what this treatment can do for you, make an appointment with the team at Vital TMS Therapy today.
