My psychiatrist wants to drill a hole in the side of my head...?

Question

He told me that it would cure me.

He said I have:
Obsessive Visual Mood Syndrome With Delusions

Is this right?

Answer 1

Good while he's in there maybe you can get a brain transplant. Psychology is a science jerk off.

Answer 2

Umm, if anyone suggested drilling a hole in my head I would DEFINITELY get a second opinion. You can type Obsessive Visual Mood Syndrome with Delusions Cures in a search engine and see what different articles suggest. I've never heard of it but I'm new to the Mental Health World. :)
Good luck!!

Answer 3

ok, don't let anybody drill a hole in the side of your head, it's your head, i mean think about it.
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Answer 4

Wow, that is drastic! All I know is that psychology and psychiatry are all based on a lot of theory!

What if his theory is wrong!

Get healing through Jesus Christ!

or

Seek a new doctor/ therapist or three more not all agree on approches too many theories out there.
Holes in your head does not seem like a good move, I would try my alternatives.

Wish you the best. God Bless you

Answer 5

Does having a hole in your head sound better to you than what he's trying to cure?

Sounds whacky to me.

Answer 6

See another docter to make sure he is not just trying to get your money for the surgery. You never know. Some docters lye and say you have something when you really don't so they can get money. Make sure it is needed and not fake.

Answer 7

Aside from getting a second and third opinion, you clearly need to report this doc.

Answer 8

i would go to a brain specialist who specializes in the brain and let him tell you what he thinks and i would go to two of them, because drilling in the skull if they are wrong you cant fix it back the way it was

Answer 9

Performed at University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, the surgery, called a stereotactic bilateral anterior capsulotomy, is one of four psychiatric neurosurgeries used around the globe to treat people with severe depression and anxiety disorders. Specialists in the field aren’t sure how or why these surgeries work, and all four operations target different parts of the brain. The goal is to interrupt the neural pathways between the frontal lobes—known as the seat of personality and the brain’s CEO because they’re involved in higher functions like problem-solving, motor-control, language, memory-sorting and impulse-control—and the so-called “lower” areas of the brain, including the thalamus, amygdala and hippocampus, which initiate mood, hormones and emotions ranging from sexual pleasure to fear.

With the anterior capsulotomy, the target is the internal capsule, an area dense with nerve connections between the frontal lobes and the thalamus. About four such procedures have been done each year at University of Alberta Hospital since Warneke started referring some of his most severe treatment-resistant patients to neurosurgeon Dr. John McKean in the early 1990s. In order to be referred, the patients must have failed a number of years of standard treatment, including pharmaceuticals and psychotherapy, and be “considerably debilitated.” Psychosurgery, Warneke explains, is “a very simple procedure that effectively cuts nerve fibres. It’s a bit like cutting some wires in a telephone trunk line to reduce the amount of messages getting through.”

His explanation is similar to that of Portuguese neurologist Dr. Egas Moniz, who developed the first psychosurgeries (then called prefrontal leucotomies) in the 1930s. Moniz claimed the procedure was necessary to “change the paths chosen by the [dysfunctional] impulses … and force thoughts into different channels.” While tools and technologies have certainly evolved over the years, the premise of severing pathways in order to treat psychiatric illnesses remains the same as it was back in the early days of lobotomy.
Today, these procedures are recommended as a last resort only for OCD, depression and, to a lesser degree, body dysmorphic disorder and anorexia. In the United States, several established centres continue to endorse and perform surgery, including Harvard University in Boston, whose clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is run by Canadian neurosurgeon Dr. Rees Cosgrove, and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, whose psychiatrists and neurosurgeons work out of nearby Butler Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital. Overseas, there are the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and seven centres in the UK. In Canada, the University of British Columbia opened a neurosurgery centre at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) in 2000, University of Toronto neurosurgeon Dr. Andres Lozano performs psychiatric neurosurgeries, and the Montreal Neurological Institute has plans to open a centre.

These centres describe highly selective candidate criteria, assessment boards and strict follow-up studies. Some are concerned that the patients they reject will find a willing neurosurgeon in their home state or province or seek out a private clinic such as the San Diego Gamma Knife Centre, which offers drill-free neurosurgery. “I have knowledge of other hospitals doing [psychiatric neurosurgery] without appropriate knowledge. I’m scared to know how many,” says Dr. Gerhard Friehs, a neurosurgeon with the Brown University team, which does several anterior capsulotomies annually and accepts one in 10 applicants who have exhausted standard treatments. “This surgery should only be done as research,” Friehs warns.

Psychiatric neurosurgery is considered experimental in the US and isn’t covered by medicare or insurance plans. But in Canada, all of these surgeries are covered by provincially funded health plans. That should make it easier to track the number of procedures performed here, but different coding at different hospitals makes it difficult to make comparisons. Because of a coding glitch, Warneke had trouble finding the files for many of his patients who had been capsulotomized at University of Alberta Hospital and Edmonton’s Grey Nuns Hospital over the past 10 years—codes included frontal lobotomy, leucotomy and total ablation of the thalamus, and one hadn’t even been recorded as having had surgery


I suggest you do research before submitting to this procedure.

Answer 10

I have a hard time believing you. Especially after I've read your other posts.