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  • I think if your direction in life is clear and if you develop the wish to accomplish/have a fulfilled life and to contribute something to others, I think that definitely gives you such a strength to want to be alive, that that would be the best placebo.

    Thinking   Giving   Wish  
    Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu
  • I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.

    "Interview: Irving Kirsch showed power of placebo effect with antidepressant use". Interview with Brian Morton, Kevin Griffin, www.vancouversun.com. September 24, 2013.
  • Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in some alternative sense. If a therapy or treatment is anything more than a placebo, properly conducted double-blind trials, statistically analyzed, will eventually bring it through with flying colours. Many candidates for recognition as orthodox medicines fail the test and are summarily dropped. The alternative label should not (though, alas, it does) provide immunity from the same fate.

    Fate   Medicine   Flying  
  • We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases.

    Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu
  • It's known that stress gives rise to disease. It's also known that many diseases, especially stress-related diseases, can be cured by placebos - pills that have no medicinal effect, but people think they do, and so they do.

    Faith and Reason - PBS, www.pbs.org.
  • Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers

  • God is a placebo for your own mortality.

    God   Mortality   Placebo  
  • You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

    Play   Mind   Body  
  • Interviewer: [What do you get up to] In real time? Brian Molko: I go on Placebo sites and have a terrible time trying to convince fans it's actually me. No one ever believes it. I've spent about four hours, giving away intimate details about myself that I'd never tell a journalist, in an effort to prove that it's me.

    Real   Believe   Giving  
  • Consider the clinicaltrials by which drugs are tested in human subjects.5 Before a new drug can enter the market, its manufacturer must sponsor clinicaltrials to show the Food and Drug Administration that the drug is safe and effective, usually as compared with a placebo or dummy pill. The results of all the trials (there may be many) are submitted to the FDA, and if one or two trials are positive—that is, they show effectiveness without serious risk—the drug is usually approved, even if all the other trials are negative.

    Two   Effectiveness   Fda  
  • Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works!

    Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu
  • I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo.

  • If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.

    Drug   Doubt   Mysterious  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • You have to believe in a placebo or it wont work, but if it works, its obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy.

    Believe   Exercise   Way  
  • For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

    Nicholson Baker (2011). “U and I: A True Story”, p.16, Vintage
  • Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.

    Hair   Giving   Nausea  
    "The Power of Words: Revising the Doctor-Patient Relationship" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.
  • I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.

  • Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo

  • In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the ego with its own potency) which is infectious: the patient enjoys a placebo-effect which redounds to the ego of the "artist."

    Art   Philosophy   Self  
  • I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter.

    "When the Leaves Blow Away". Documentary, Comedy, 2006.
  • Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway version of the Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts box that says, “Warning: Pastry Filling May Be Hot When Heated.

    Simple   Giving   Comfort  
    Tom Vanderbilt (2008). “Traffic”, p.187, Vintage
  • If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. That's why the placebo effect is so powerful for every type of healing. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the "nocebo" effect.

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.

  • A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection.

    Men   Medicine   Feelings  
  • Worship is a meeting at the center so that our lives are centered in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this center, the living God. Failure to worship consigns us to a life of spasms and jerks, at the mercy of every advertisement, every seduction, every siren. Without worship we live manipulated and manipulating lives. We move in either frightened panic or deluded lethargy as we are, in turn, alarmed by specters and soothed by placebos. If there is no center, there is no circumference.

    Moving   Sirens   Panic  
  • Can placebos cause side effects? If so, are the side effects real?

    Real   Causes   Sides  
    George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion
  • The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment.

  • I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers call it 'placebo effect'; I prefer to call it magic, for it occurs when something - a pill or a word - is imbued with power and meaning, and so it becomes effective. That is alchemy.

  • A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.

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