Self-trepanation seems the realm of low bud­get hor­ror films and his­toric med­ical lit­er­a­ture. How­ever Neu­rophi­los­o­phy has a tran­script of an inter­view with a recent self-trepanner.

M: How exactly did you per­form the trepanation?

HP: I used a hand trepan ini­tially, but that wasn’t prov­ing to be ter­ri­bly suc­cess­ful. Then there was a prob­lem with the peo­ple who owned the prop­erty we were stay­ing in, so we decided we’d have to just leave it. I wrapped my head up in a towel and we got out of there. A cou­ple of days later, we had another go. We aban­doned the hand trepan and got an elec­tric drill instead. I injected myself with a local anaes­thetic and then slashed a big T-shaped inci­sion in my scalp, right down to the bone. I was sat there in the bath­room feel­ing quite relaxed and they started with the drill.

via Mind Hacks