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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (69205)	5/19/2002 9:12:17 PM
From: augieboo	Respond to of 99280

I thought I read somewhere that it is even worse with anti-depressants, which have a placebo effect of something like 40+%...? That's not quite right. A recent study concluded that placebos given instead of an antidepressant relieve symptoms in a high percentage of cases -- for a very short while, i.e., a few days to a couple weeks at most. Then the patient feels worse than ever. My personal opinion is that the belief that one is being treated relieves some of the stress which is quite-often associated with depression, thus causing a lessoning of symptoms via placebo. Once the patient realizes, however, that the core symptomology is not improving, he/she feels worse, because the treatment seems to have failed, and thus the future has become just that much more bleak. augie p.s. My Mom is a shrink, so I know a tiny bit about this stuff from having talked to her about it hundreds of times.