http://neuro.templehealth.org/content/ETShyperhidrosis.htm
Sympathectomy, (ETS, VATS, ESB and many other names for the same procedure) affects emotional responses, fear responses, arousal, etc. It changes a person’s ability to feel and respond to emotions. It changes drive, attention, mobilisation.
Patients sign up for a surgery to treat sweaty hands, and not ‘adjustments’ to their emotions and personality.