A woman was told by social worker & psychiatrist that in order to keep her kids she had to comply & take psych meds. She used to pick up the prescription & put them in the bin. But they wrote on her notes that since ‘taking’ them, she was nicer, calmer & easier to engage…
Now if that isn’t one hell of a placebo effect I don’t know what is 😂
The woman told me that she now looks back on that & laughs, they called HER delusional, and yet they apparently saw huge changes in her that they told her were down to ‘solving’ the ‘brain chemical imbalance’
The woman told me that she now looks back on that & laughs, they called HER delusional, and yet they apparently saw huge changes in her that they told her were down to ‘solving’ the ‘brain chemical imbalance’
Imagine that. What an interesting case that is.
The woman never took a single pill, but the professionals believed she did, so they saw changes in her that didn’t exist, and told her that it was because they were right all along and she had a ‘brain chemical imbalance’
The woman never took a single pill, but the professionals believed she did, so they saw changes in her that didn’t exist, and told her that it was because they were right all along and she had a ‘brain chemical imbalance’
She laughed about it and said maybe they were the ‘delusional’ ones
I must say, this example, as serious as the situation was, really did make me laugh. For years she just picked up the script, binned the meds and let them think she was ‘different’ in some way and it worked.
I must say, this example, as serious as the situation was, really did make me laugh. For years she just picked up the script, binned the meds and let them think she was ‘different’ in some way and it worked.
The reason she now finds this so interesting is because she said throughout this experience, they continued to tell her it was because of a mythical ‘brain chemical imbalance’ that the meds had ‘solved’, and that she must ‘keep taking them’ to ‘manage it’…
But that entire time, she knew she had never taken a pill, so she knew there was no imbalance, and the pills were not ‘rebalancing’ anything in her. Every time she did something that they perceived as positive, they put it down to the pills she wasn’t even taking lol
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