Fear is irrational and inappropriate. Let’s try to rationalise it. Firstly let’s recognise what fear is – a chemical reaction. The word fear stands for fantasies envisaged as real. And that’s just what they are. For in primitive times people lived by their fears and their biological instincts when faced with a threat was toContinue reading “A paragraph on fear.”
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The placebo and nocebo effect.
The placebo effect is a somewhat well known phenomenon. Imagine you take a group of people with a headache, you give them a mint pill but you tell them that it was an aspirin with mint flavour. What would happen? A few people will start feeling better; some may even stop having their headache. ThatContinue reading “The placebo and nocebo effect.”
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