The Morning Tina Woke Up Finally Wanting to Live: Trauma, Misdiagnosis & Miraculous Healing through TMS

In this episode, Gavin interviews Tina Tanner about her lifelong mental health journey shaped by severe childhood abuse, neglect, and early attachment wounds. Tina describes recurring cycles of major depression and hypomanic productivity that led to a bipolar diagnosis she felt didn’t fit. For decades, Tina endured chronic anxiety, suicidal ideation, and extensive medical issues and surgeries she connects to living in chronic stress. While studying for her Master's degree, Tina discovered the diagnosis that finally made everything make sense: complex PTSD. After years of therapy and medications, Tina pursued ECT at age 56 following a painful family betrayal, but she felt it worsened her memory and left her unable to function socially for years. She credits finding safety with her husband Jack and, ultimately, TMS at Whole Mind with relieving her depression, anxiety, and chronic pain, restoring joy, improving memory, helping her taper off medications, and giving her a stable “middle” state. Tina urges others—especially adult women with overlooked ADHD and trauma histories—to keep searching, ask for help, and consider TMS.