Ask a therapist

It's very unfortunate that the Ask a TMS Therapist program is still on the wiki and deceptively appears to be active, because none of the therapists has responded since before 2020. I've been lobbying to have the page deactivated because it's frustrating to see people still asking. I see the questions, which are stored in an admin subforum, but the programming on them is different and I can't respond to tell people they are wasting their time.

The reason I've been given for not deactivating is because the programming represents an enormous investment of time and creative effort.

In any case, I think that the therapists who initially agreed to do it (for free) became too busy in their own practices and their other mindbody activities which are focused on spreading the word to a wider audience. And I think there is another aspect which might have caused them to lose interest, which is that the vast majority of the questions always were, to be honest, pretty basic and quite repetitive. A minority of questions would be so physically specific that they really required a personal consultation with a TMS doctor. However most of the questions were answered multiple times in the early days of the program, and those are the same types of questions which can easily be answered by plenty of non-professional but experienced people who are active on this forum.

 

This is a good point @Betty Boop. Ideally the archive would remain, but the form for submitting new questions would be inactivated, and replaced with an explanation of the history of the program and how to search the archived responses just like you did!