Knowledge of the elimination of embarrassing physical symptoms in social situations helps the patient to expose himself to formerly impossible situations, and success in them also causes psychological symptoms to subside. But the relief of psychological symptoms may also be due to direct a biological effect of the operation on the anxiety-mediating areas in the nervous system. The only meaningful side effect is compensatory sweating of the trunk, but not even that is significant when modern surgical method are used. (sic!)
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