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Depression ruined her life for years. Then doctor’s ‘helmet’ changed everything
In late July, Lori Jackson completed the last of 36 sessions of Deep TMS at Interpersonal Psychiatry in Kansas City. - Luke Johnson/The Kansas City Star/TNS

Depression ruined her life for years. Then doctor’s ‘helmet’ changed everything

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Depression sucked the life from Lori Jackson’s time on this earth for nearly 40 years. On her darkest days in college she hung a blanket over her dorm room window to block out the light and slept, skipping classes. As she had her three children, her doctor prescribed Prozac for postpartum depression, but that didn’t lift the darkness. “It’s hard to describe, and it’s kinda cliche maybe. … You just feel like somebody has put a black, non-see-through blanket over your head,” said Jackson, who is 55 and lives in Overland Park, Kansas. “It’s heavy and it’s black and it’s just a...

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