{"id":159,"date":"2008-10-26T12:31:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T19:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2008-10-26T12:31:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T19:31:19","slug":"the-placebo-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"The Placebo Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently doctors regularly proscribe drugs for their placebo effect.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/23\/health\/23placebo.html\">The nytimes has an article detailing the practice.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I myself wholeheartedly believe in the effect.\u00c2\u00a0 When I was put on a .75 mg dose of Klonopin, it calmed me down immediately.\u00c2\u00a0 It actually calmed me down even before I got my prescription filled.\u00c2\u00a0 Later, as I was recounding the medications I was on to a nurse, she said &#8220;that&#8217;s not doing anything!\u00c2\u00a0 that&#8217;s not enough to be effective.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 and i said &#8220;Shush!\u00c2\u00a0 The placebo effect is working just fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently doctors regularly proscribe drugs for their placebo effect.\u00c2\u00a0 The nytimes has an article detailing the practice. I myself wholeheartedly believe in the effect.\u00c2\u00a0 When I was put on a .75 mg dose of Klonopin, it calmed me down immediately.\u00c2\u00a0 It actually calmed me down even before I got my prescription filled.\u00c2\u00a0 Later, as I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=159\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Placebo Effect<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metanarrative","tag-anxiety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}