Placebo – the cure for all diseases

Much has ben written about the placebo effect. I’ve written before that many antidepressant drugs are no better than a placebo and many, if not most, doctors use a prescription as a placebo in that they know the patient will feel better for taking the prescribed...

Depression and antidepressants

Depression is often described as a disease. It’s something, so they will tell you, that happens to the brain chemistry. Your doctor will tell you that you need to take a pill to ‘fix’ this imbalance in brain chemistry. Like much of what doctors tell...