[eli5:] Can a placebo instantly make someone well or are placebos always a process in which, for example, a person takes placebo pills and only overtime becomes well?
In: Biology
Your mind is a very powerful thing. You can interpret pain, nausea, anxiety, and other things way differently than someone else does, and the act of taking a pill gives you this sense of effort thats being made toward treatment. You start to look for positives/results, and you find them, or perhaps you feel calmer because you’ve gotten “help”.
placebo pills can’t “fix” anything. But your outlook on any conditions/symptoms you have can be radically changed and that has a profound effect on your overall qualify of life.
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