This is called a “nocebo” effect, and you see it very clearly in the trial data. Just like the placebo effect, it’s very, very real because—while clinical medicine can remain stubbornly dualist in orientation—the mind is in your body. “It’s in your mind” things are real things! https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1373752233653903360 …
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Replying to @zeynep
Also, sometimes we feel the physical effects of stress after relief (if that makes sense?). I felt exhausted and headachy after my first shot. The same way I feel right after the semester is over and all my grades are turned in. Sometimes relief hits hard.
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Yeah. The decrease in anxiety is so very real.
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