For forty years Bart de Beurs has lived with a compulsive disorder that dominates his life. Until, in 2014, he was released by literally pressing a button. He recounts his life with this disorder and the all-changing treatment in his book ” Surgery Anxiety: How Deep Brain Stimulation Saved Me ”. Together with Roel Mocking, a psychiatrist and researcher at the UMC in Amsterdam, he explains The BV news explains what deep brain stimulation is and why this treatment deserves more attention.
