Get ready for a complicated story. So I diagnosed myself as a narcissist and a person with social anxiety/socially awkward. I feel depressed and so down because I want to be a normal person with empathy for others and with an ability to love. So this friday I have an appointment in the hospital with a psychiatrist. It’s an intake for TMS/Tdcs (transcranial magnetic stimulation). I have to convince the psychiatrist that I have been depressed for months now and that medication doesn’t work. I am not telling him about the narcissistic part, because then he may not be willing to try the tms/tdcs treatment. The reason I am doing this, is because I hope that the tms/tdcs will make me feel empathy towards others. I know it sounds crazy but I am willing to try everything. I read a story about an autistic man (john elder robison) who had TMS and this treatment made him sense emotions and feel empathy towards others. I am hoping the same for myself. If the treatment doesn’t work I will have to take my own life.
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Have you tried electro shock therapy (Ect)?
I don’t think that Ect would give me empathy.. I need something more stimulating
Wait, what country do you live in?
I live in Belgium, why?
Well, looks like they haven’t warmed up to MDMA as a psychotherapeutic tool in Belgium, but I understand it shows a lot of promise in small doses for treating empathy and social symptoms in PTSD patients. Dunno if any research has been done on PD’s, though.
No MDMA is illegal in Belgium. I read about that too.. But I want to try tdcs first