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I find research into the placebo/nocebo effect very interesting, and from what I understand it has been shown, that * the effect results in real physical chang
by Pyramus 6y ago
I find research into the placebo/nocebo effect very interesting, and from what I understand it has been shown, that
* the effect results in real physical change,
* the effect is independent of whether you believe in it.
E.g. there is a number of RCT studies on acupuncture where needles are placed randomly, still people experience amelioration of symptoms.
So I'm wondering you are thinking that nocebo is equivalent with "in your head"?
- nikkwong 6y agoI absolutely subscribe to the fact that placebo/nocebo can be as (or even more) powerful than the intervention that a candidate believes that they are receiving. When I read anecdotes that fall out of line with our scientific understanding of the facts (such as the one I posed above), my default assumption is that we're witnessing placebo at play. From the outside, I definitely would not trust my anecdote. After my experience though, and now knowing what I know about the drug, I still wouldn't chalk my experience up to placebo. I guess that's the catch-22 of the phenomenon, eh?