--- In [email protected], "shanti2218411" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However,there are many treatments which > are only modestly more powerful than the placebo and I think this is > the case with SSRI's.
However, this I assume is only your conjecture, perhaps well founded by your experience as a practicioner, but still conjecture. It would seem to me that whether a treatment has useful effects is a disccussion relevant primarily to the subject and their doctor. With possible input from family and health carrier if the treatment is being funded under insurance. And NOT relevant to any bystanders aor back seat drivers. And hypothetically, if there is placebo effect, if thats what actually is occuring and the SSRI has no physiologic effect (a premise I find quite shakey), still as you point out, there is a structure of support -- with a myriad of factors, that is generating the real effect, via placebo. Thus the questions is certainly not, as some posters have implied now and in the past (BB), that the SSRI support structure is a waste, that the results are imaginary, aka placebo, that doing nothing would produce the same results. For example, its silly to tell someone "here are your sugar pills, take one daily", and expect them to have a REAL placebo effect. They have to BELIEVE that there is "Big MOJO" enlivened in the thereapy/pill for a placebo to have a REAL effect. The major research question would appear to be is there a more cost-effective support structure that can yield the same effect. That is, if its a real placebo effect, can a "Big MOJO" expectation be created by other, lower costs, less side effect means. Or if the effect is part direct physiologic and part placebo, is there a way of ramping up the "BIG MOJO" expectation and reduce the more costly and side-effect ridden drug. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
