Arkansas woman credits five‑day SAINT therapy with sustained relief from treatment‑resistant depression

Sandy Rasmussen told the broadcast she has lived with severe depression since childhood and that multiple treatments, including medication and electroconvulsive therapy, had failed to bring lasting relief.

She said she and her husband traveled to UAMS, where she received SAINT — a targeted neuromodulation therapy described in the package as using brain mapping and magnetic stimulation to focus on emotional-regulation areas of the brain in an accelerated five-day course. Rasmussen said she began to feel improvement on the third day and remained free of depression for nearly 14 months at the time of the interview.

Rasmussen urged others who are struggling not to give up and described the therapy as a turning point in her life. The broadcast presented her account as a personal testimony; it did not include clinical outcome data or comment from independent researchers in this segment.