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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M
Both are basically "mind over matter."
A placebo is for example when you are given a sugar pill and you start to feel better because you believe it is having an impact.
Nocebo is when someone has convinced themselves something will cause harm to them and their mind creates the negative symptoms they are convinced will happen.
Good example of this is the so called "covid vaccine shakes" you see on the internet these days.
People have convinced themselves in advance it will harm them so not surprisingly their body starts having stress induced negative symptoms.
A placebo is for example when you are given a sugar pill and you start to feel better because you believe it is having an impact.
Nocebo is when someone has convinced themselves something will cause harm to them and their mind creates the negative symptoms they are convinced will happen.
Good example of this is the so called "covid vaccine shakes" you see on the internet these days.
People have convinced themselves in advance it will harm them so not surprisingly their body starts having stress induced negative symptoms.
revenant · F
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow ok what frikking area of the brain controls that ? because I only want placebos.
PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M
@revenant The thing is this involves alot of different functions of the brain and no one area.
I mean the end reaction is subconscious an involuntary but you get to that point from other things before you get there.
A good way to avoid the nocebo effect is to avoid stuff like self diagnosing on WebMD like a hypochondriac, don't go looking for medical horror stories online, avoid conspiracy theories. The end result for these people is an involuntary stress response but they preconditioned themselves to react that way.
Hope that makes sense.
I mean the end reaction is subconscious an involuntary but you get to that point from other things before you get there.
A good way to avoid the nocebo effect is to avoid stuff like self diagnosing on WebMD like a hypochondriac, don't go looking for medical horror stories online, avoid conspiracy theories. The end result for these people is an involuntary stress response but they preconditioned themselves to react that way.
Hope that makes sense.
revenant · F
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow What do I do when conspiracy theories have a placebo effect on me ?