| If you or a loved one is faced with the prospect of | | | | happen. Brain surgery, of just about all procedures, |
| brain surgery, no doubt there is a great deal of | | | | remains one of the most delicate forms of invasive |
| anxiety attached to that prospect. As a culture, we | | | | surgery. While more people do successfully undergo |
| are conditioned to think of brain surgery as possibly | | | | brain surgery for the removal of tumors or to relieve |
| being the end of our lives. Here are some of the | | | | cranial pressure that resulted from an accident, any |
| reasons why the idea of undergoing brain surgery | | | | type of procedure involving the brain scares us |
| causes so much fear in our hearts. | | | | because we cannot see how we will not be altered in |
| Many of us know nothing more about brain surgery | | | | some manner by the surgery. Not being able to |
| than what we have learned through television shows | | | | anticipate how we will change and what our loved |
| and movies. In most cases, brain surgery was an | | | | ones will be called upon to deal with is something that |
| event that either left an individual as a complete | | | | fills many of us with a lot of dread. |
| vegetable or turned the person into a raving lunatic. | | | | The best way to keep fears about brain surgery to |
| We all know on one level that what we see on | | | | a reasonable limit is to research the issue and learn as |
| television and in the movies is strictly for | | | | many facts as possible. While learning about the true |
| entertainment and often has little or nothing to do | | | | state of brain surgery and surgical procedures as |
| with the reality of the situation. Nevertheless, we still | | | | they exist today will not wipe away all the concerns, |
| fear in the back of our minds that we will come out | | | | it will help to quiet some of the fears of the more |
| of the surgery with a drastically altered personality or | | | | spectacular nature. Understanding this very serious |
| that we will slip into a state where we will in effect | | | | procedure for what it really is will make the prospect |
| cease to exists, even if our bodies are still breathing. | | | | of impending brain surgery a little easier to deal with, |
| Fear of the unknown lies at the heart of our fear of | | | | and help to focus the mind on facts rather than |
| brain surgery. Simply put, we don't know what will | | | | fiction. |