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2 months ago | 1
I think it's different when you are in a study vs just taking meds just unceremoniously by yourself.
2 months ago | 0
I have had some extreme reactions to them. They can definitely do something. Not always in a good way. One time getting all hyper and I started making a lot of jokes. People litterally asked me what pills I was using. And I actually worked in distribution of medicine to hospitals and pharmacist. Second time on the same meds with a very low dose it made me almost want to end my life while I actually was happily in love with my boyfriend just the weeks beforehand. Both times the difference in the way I felt were a massive difference and I even got hart palpitations and vivid dreams of planes crashing the first time. That made me quit after 4 months without speaking to a doctor. And for a long time I didn't want to try anything. That low dose set me way back. Tried some ritalin after that which did help a bit but made me comatose. Not able to get out of bed was already a problem but now it was the worst. My eyes wouldn't open. After this I started looking into natural ways to get neurotransmitters in balance. It started my journey into functional medicine. And it is so much more complex than we can imagine at times. But without the basic building blocks we will have disfunction. And things like mold seem to have played a huge role in hindsight.
2 months ago (edited) | 0
If 74% of the effect is placebo, then technically optimism is the best medicine until you look at, you know, actual clinical trials
2 months ago | 0
Chris Masterjohn, PhD
Placebos are more effective than drugs for depression.
Before you stop me and say "false, drugs outperform placebos," you are correct, they do.
But placebos are 40% effective and drugs 54% effective, which means that 74% of the drug's effect is explained by the placebo effect.
In order to properly understand this you have to realize that every treatment *is* a placebo.
The point of comparing it to the placebo is to subtract the proportion of its impact explained by the placebo effect.
So, 74% of a drug's effect is placebo, and 26% of it is biochemical.
That means that the placebo effect is 2.8 times more powerful than the pharmacological effect of the drug's biochemistry!
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