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You're talking about transcranial magnetic stimulation?
You know, that hadn't been on my radar? I appreciate you bringing that up and forcing me to have a better understanding of it. Looking further into it, there doesn't seem to be enough literature at the moment to be certain and it's not currently FDA approved for my specific case. Severe depression, yes. Psychosis is a relative contraindication as of last year -- i.e., "exercise caution, but go ahead with it if the benefit outweighs the risk."

Which would be the question, for me. I'm not certain, in my case, whether I would be labeled as so bad off that I outweigh all risk of making it worse. Could see it happening because god does hate me and maybe I just don't realize how bad it is, but I think I'd likely just go back to being prescribed varying medications forever until we all grow old and die.

The position I'm currently in is, each successive psychotic break a person has causes a tiny little percentage of brain damage. So do antipsychotics if you keep taking them. That knowledge makes it feel like a question of the rate at which I desire my brain to rot rather than an If, and I don't think I really can be more sedated than I am and remain this barely functional.

So I've really been holding out for the US to take notice of Australia's recent approval of psilocybin, which doesn't seem to have anywhere approaching the negative effects while still acting as a successful medication. I got all excited over it and everything.

You know, I think I would try TMS if it were offered to me, yeah. What's the worst thing that's going to happen, I'll turn into myself?