After-treatment FAQs

Ultimately, how long the effects of treatment last depends on the individual patient. The good news is that unlike some other treatments, TMS therapy and Spravato® have been shown to work again if they’ve worked once. If you’d like to start another round of treatment with us, reach out.

Seek guidance and support from your treating psychiatrist and/or therapist to develop strategies that will help you after treatment ends. To help maintain your improvement or remission from depression, you can also incorporate habits that help support a healthy quality of life post-treatment, such as regular exercise, a healthy nutrition plan, therapy, and enriching social activities. 

Though some patients may need maintenance therapy in managing their depression, others won’t. That’s why it’s important to maintain communication with your primary mental health provider.

No. Unfortunately, if someone experiences depression once (even if they reach remission from it), they’re more likely to experience depression again.

If you’ve consented for us to provide information to your doctor, we’ve updated them on your progress.

No. You may miss coming in to talk with your Care Team, but there’s no physical side effects from ending treatment. 

Here are a few things to keep in mind:

• With some treatments, such as TMS therapy, patients can continue to experience improvements in the weeks after treatment ends. That’s another reason why it’s important to continue to track your mood and symptoms.
• At Greenbrook, we offer several options for the treatment of depression. If you haven’t felt much relief from your depression symptoms with one treatment (such as TMS therapy), we encourage you to see if another treatment may be beneficial for you (such as nasal esketamine). 
• We encourage you to stay in contact with your primary mental health care provider, even if you've reached remission. If you haven't reached remission, your provider can help guide your next steps to feeling better.

It depends. Some people experience the same depression symptoms during every episode, others experience new ones. That’s why it’s important to familiarize yourself with all the symptoms of depression, so that you can engage with treatment if need be. 

This depends on how long it’s been since we treated you and whether there have been many changes in your treatment and symptom history since then. If you think you’d benefit from another round of treatment with us, we’re happy to schedule another no-cost consultation for you.