Placebo Effect Plays Big Role in Antidepressant's Impact on Anxiety: Study

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Brain food
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Placebo Effect Plays Big Role in Antidepressant's Impact on Anxiety: Study

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Another reason why antidepressants are crap.

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news ... iety-study

Link to the full study referenced in the article:

Expectancy effects on serotonin and dopamine transporters during SSRI treatment of social anxiety disorder: a randomized clinical trial

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-021-01682-3
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Re: Placebo Effect Plays Big Role in Antidepressant's Impact on Anxiety: Study

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Yup. Have you read "The emperor's new drugs" by Irving Kirsch?

Placebo, Nocebo, you name it.

Kirsch says they may be "active placebos" drugs meant to cause *side effects* as being actually the only thing the drug does, since it does something, the patient thinks is not placebo and does the trick.. depressed about being depressed? take something labeled as "antidepressant" by the medical community and with such a cultural weight that one's conditioned. I disagree with this last suspiciousness of it being "active placebos" though.
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