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Originally Posted by Nedusa
Perhaps the placebo effect in some instances can be examined by the initial pain or ailment not actually existing but the person for a variety of reason has developed the pain as a form of psychosis a bit like munchausen's syndrome where the illness or pain is invented.
There have been control experiments contradicting this. It's not flaky research carried out within mental / psychotic sectors any more than they would occur in normalised society. 100 patients get the cure, 50 real medicine, 50 not. All told it's the same.
Now the mind is a powerful thing and although technically there is no reason for this pain the mind can create actual real pain if believed.
It can, but that's more bordering upon suggestion under hypnosis. It's not a blind belief.
So in these circumstances both a real pill and a placebo will remove this pain as the patient believes he or she is being cured and so the mind will erase this pain in these circumstances.
In this example the belief a pill ( placebo or not) is the reason the pain disappears as the patient has invented the pain as part of a more serious psychosis.
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No, the patient already believes their pain is real. Haha, sorry, I as was about to digress yet again, about the nature of perceived reality :P