Alpha-Stim® can relieve the emotional fatigue and isolation of depression. Without drugs/medications.

If you're like many people who suffer from depression, you've probably tried a everything under the sun; antidepressants, with extra helpings of side effects.

You may have found working with a pyschotherapist helpful - once you found the right one. You try to find the energy to exercise, eat better and get out in the world.

And still, your depression comes back and takes over control.

Alpha-Stim® is an effective, drug-free treatment alternative

Alpha-Stim® is an entirely different approach to treating depression and conditions that often accompany depression. Alpha-Stim® uses technology called electrotherapy, which has proven highly effective in treating mood disorders. Following are several of the most common forms of depression that can be treated by Alpha-Stim®.

• Major Depression If you have prolonged feelings of sadness, despair, hopelessness, guilt, fatigue and/or worthlessness, you may be suffering from Major Depression.
• Atypical Depression is much like Major depression in its depressive symptoms, but people who have this disorder can have moments of happiness and enjoyment. Other symptoms include: fatigue, lethargy, overeating and weight gain.
• Dysthymia is mild-to-moderate depression that lasts two years or longer. It can occur with periods of major depression.
• Bipolar Disorder People who have Bipolar Disorder cycle between the lows of major depression and manic phases.
• SAD If you find yourself depressed and lacking energy when autumn rolls around and these symptoms go away in the spring, it's likely you have "SAD" Seasonal Affective Disorder.
• Postpartum Depression is thought to be triggered by hormonal changes that occur after childbirth.

How Alpha-Stim works on depression

In a sense, your body runs on its own electricity. Electrical impulses and chemicals produced by your nerve cells form the communication system for your body head-to-toe.

When you have depression, your body doesn't produce enough of these chemicals. Communication is scrambled and the systems in your brain that regulate mood are disrupted.

When you use Alpha-Stim®:

• Very small electrical currents from the Alpha-Stim® unit stimulate your nerve cells.
• This helps re-start the production of feel-good chemicals* and electrical impulses. As a result, systems in your brain that regulate mood are restored.

In fact, the process is very similar with most antidepressants. However drugs/medications, rather than small electrical currents, trigger the positive changes. LEARN MORE...

Let other Alpha-Stim users tell you how their lives have improved after treatment.

Alpha-Stim® works, over and over again!

The benefits of Alpha-Stim® are evidenced in more than 100 published research reports and peer-reviewed clinical studies conducted at medical and/or teaching institutions. Following is a comparison of Alpha-Stim® versus leading antidepressants.

References
1. Kirsch I, Moore TJ, Scorboria A, and Nicholls SS. The emperors new drugs: an analysis of antidepressant medication data submitted to the FDA. Prevention and Treatment. 2002; 5:1-11.
2. Gilula, Marshall F., and Kirsch, Daniel L. Cranial electrotherapy stimulation review: a safer alternative to psychopharmaceuticals in the treatment of depression. Journal of Neurotherapy, 9(2):7-26, 2005.
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