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Anxiety Disorder and Depression This forum room is for people to discuss other conditions. Many OCD suffers also suffer from Anxiety Disorder and Depression in addition to their OCD.

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Old 4th July 2007, 20:13
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It is brain surgery, there are three techniques that are used, some are less invasive than others. A cure, mmm, im not sure anything in life is guaranteed. Some people have huge symptom reduction, others feel the same, some find they get thier lives back, some get worse a...

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Old 5th July 2007, 06:36
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I'm stunned - I have never heard of surgery for OCD. If you find out anything else would you be good enough to post it on here, I'd be fascinated to read up on it. Thanks....

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Old 5th July 2007, 06:39
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I have just found this site: really interesting thanks for flagging this up I had never heard of it. It's fascinating. Psychosurgery Psychosurgery, or neurosurgery, is a surgical procedure which involves destroying microscopic amounts of brain tissue in target areas ...

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Old 5th July 2007, 06:40
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More: The anterior cingulotomy and anterior capsulotomy are the two most common types of neurosurgery performed. Two other forms sometimes employed are the subcaudate tractotomy or limbic leucotomy. Don't worry if these names don't mean much to you. The main idea is that ...

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Old 7th July 2007, 15:05
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Thanks for the replies, i hope the infomration that you provided Cheekychic has helped others who hadn't heard of it before! I really would like to find someone who has actually been through it themselves, i have watched programmes on it and i know all about the techniques ...

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Old 9th July 2007, 11:52
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Hi, Id be fairly sure your chances of bumping into someone who has had surgery remote although when I go out and discuss OCD with people you's bge amazed at the amount of people who open up. It's great! :-) I think you will probably have to ask your consultant to refer...

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Old 10th July 2007, 20:25
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Default I read more about this.
Im scared to go ahead with this treatment. I would say it be best if I stuck with the other methods of treatment....

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Old 11th July 2007, 17:42
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This isn't something you can just opt for, you have to have tried all the other treatments and them to have failed and even then it has to be the last resort. This is where i am at, i am not suggesting others do the same, plenty of people do get better from ocd without surge...

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