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Well ACKTSCHUALLLY:
The placebo effect includes the positive response of getting rid of an illness that without any pills or effect would have been solved by the body anyways.
Yes there are occasions where without the mind thinking it will help you will suffer longer from a disease but most of the time a positive mind is just enough. So a clown might be more effective than a placebo pill.
It's rather the body heals us and we give the pills the credit for it.
You’d think that, but there have been studies where the subjects have been explicitly told they were receiving placebos, and still had positive effects.
In fact, there is a woman who was told essentially “this is a study to see if placebos can help with IBS, here is your placebo, it should do nothing.” And they helped her to the point that she begged to continue receiving the placebo pills because they helped her.
So it’s not just a feeling, or a mindset. There’s something to placebo we still don’t understand.