Sailaway wrote:
A few years ago there was a widely published study (released to the news
media) that pitted placebo against the well known SSRI's like Paxil,
etc. What they found was that several drugs made people worse, the drug
that worked the best scored a 15% improvement (subjective, rated by the
patients on standardized scoresheets) and the placebo rated 45%.
Beliefs are powerful.

Geeze.......... 45%!?!?!

But I gotta ask who were the test subjects? Were they or had been SSRI
users?

If so I would think the study was skewed with a bunch of head cases. I
just can not believe that 45% of the general population would say they
felt better after swalling a sugar cube.

But hey, may be I am just ignorant and not in touch with my inner
spiritual healing center. I'll sell my boat buy an 18' teepee, eat
tofu, shove alfalfa up my ass, and find some fat chick with hairy legs
to share my spiritual quest while living on USFS land and collecting
food stamps?

SantaCruze-SF-Ashland-Eugene.....