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Originally Posted by vital
Hi TheLastChapter,
I'm really glad you're feeling better, whatever the means although your husband finding comfort in alcohol sounds very ominous.
Your comment about believing yourself into getting better is interesting. It reminds me of the real but really surprising placebo effect. For something like depression, if you give someone a placebo, about 30% of them will get better, even though what they took does nothing at all (I supposed that this doesn't work for something like a broken arm!?). In a way, this huge effect represents in at least a partial way, your ability to somehow heal yourself.
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The Placebo affect is an amazing phenomenon and one they don't really study. It really is mind over matter but I don't think it is conscience.
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The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be." -- Richard Feynman
Major Depressive Disorder
Anxiety Disorder with some paranoid delusions thrown in for fun.
Recovering Alcoholic and Addict
Possibly on low end of bi polar spectrum...trying to decide.
Male, 50
Fetzima 80mg
Lamictal 100mg
Remeron 30mg for sleep
Klonopin .5mg twice a day, cutting this back
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