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My takeaway is that placebo pills are surprisingly effective for mental issues. I'm not quite sure how this could be utilised in psychiatry though.
by krzat 3y ago
My takeaway is that placebo pills are surprisingly effective for mental issues.
I'm not quite sure how this could be utilised in psychiatry though.
- nuancebydefault 3y agoIndeed. The placebo effect is a real and known effect, a kind of psychological artifact. If it didn't exist, testing medication effectiveness would be much easier, as there would be no need for tests to be double blind. I compare placebo to noise, as in, signal to noise. I think we shouldn't fall into the trap of thinking that taking/doing a placebo would most often be an effective enough treatment, because tests show that the placebo effect happened. That would be like saying, just use full noise instead of the signal, since tests show they are close, rms wise.