A Mother's story: how our son overcame OCD with TMS

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) profoundly affects both individuals and their families. A mother shares her heartfelt story of how TMS treatment at Smart TMS London brought remarkable improvement to her son's severe OCD, after enduring 25 years of challenges. (To protect patient privacy, names have been changed.)

"It is almost 2 months since I first contacted Smart TMS and I feel compelled to relate to you our feelings on [my son's] treatment.

Peter had his treatment with you soon after our conversation. (you will not necessarily remember us but will have the notes).

I don’t know where to begin to tell you of our thoughts and gratitude to you.  Our son is now the son we have had glimpses of throughout his adult life. He stayed with us for 5 days after his treatment before he started his new job and they came again this bank holiday weekend so we have had time together to see the change it has made.

Neither my husband nor I can get over the change in him. For over 25 years we have lived with his constant stress and panic phone calls and now we can’t get our heads round it. He has been married 9 years and his wife has stood a lot of the pressure. It is the best money we have ever, ever spent and we would do it all over again. I want to shout from the rooftops but unless you have lived with this closely no one would understand.

Not only has Peter got his life back, but so have we all.

Over the years we have been ridiculed by doctors, undergone so many different treatments and tried everything. There has been so much hype by the government on mental health and by charities such as MIND but we could never seem to get any help that worked. We still think we are living in a dream.

Before we embarked on this, we felt you cared. It didn’t seem like Peter was just another patient. And you have continued to make us feel you are there for us if we should ever need you. From your phone conversation and email, we felt everything was personal to us.

We thank you and your team from the bottom of our hearts.

With kindest regards and gratitude,"

[Peter's mother]