Posted by SLS on April 20, 2001, at 8:44:33
In reply to Re: Don't say it's just placebo, posted by mikes on April 19, 2001, at 23:51:57
> > Did any of Quitkin's stuff address that?
> Well, probably, but that wasn't a very well thought out comment about placebo...I was mainly posting about st. john's wort.
Hi Mike.I don't know if you were addressing me specifically with your above comment. I wouldn't think so. Someone asked whether or not studies have been conducted focusing on the place that placebo control has in human psychiatric studies and the phenomenology of a placebo effect in depression. I was simply offering sources of information to pursue an answer to that question.
I agree with you about the post you are referring to. For me, it wasn't so much the content of the post that I found disagreeable as it was the tone of certainty conveyed by the author and that it was perhaps misplaced.
I haven't read the study cited, although I am aware of its existence. I am also aware of other studies that concluded the contrary. I don't know. Plenty of people claim that it helps them, including my sister. She was mildly depressed or dysthymic at the time.
- Scott
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