Free from your obsessive-compulsive disorder at the touch of a button

For forty years Bart de Beurs has lived with a compulsive disorder that dominates his life. Until, in 2014, he was liberated by literally pressing a button. He tells about 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, psychiatrist and researcher at Amsterdam UMC, he explains The News BV what deep brain stimulation is and why this treatment deserves more attention.