Magnetic pulses might lift depression's 'cloud' For 20 years, depression dogged Stan Dowery. "It always felt like there was a cloud over me," says Dowery, who lives in the South Side Kenwood neighborhood. "I never felt that I would get better." He'd seen multiple psychiatrists and tried several antidepressants. Nothing worked. And each new pill came with "terrible" side effects, like weight gain and sexual dysfunction.