The Nocebo Effect - Are You Making Yourself Sick?
With our health and wellbeing, we are aware of what behaviours in life we need to do to keep ourselves well. Whether we do them or not is another thing, but for most of us, we know what could harm us. But what if there was another factor that could determine our health and wellbeing? One that is overlooked, yet shown to have a powerful effect. That what you know can hurt you. In terms of health care, just “knowing” the negative effects of a diagnosis or intervention, can caus