Posted by yxibow on June 7, 2006, at 16:53:55
In reply to Re: Question about placebo effect, posted by honeybee on June 7, 2006, at 13:45:51
It's not necessarily that its a placebo effect, but its a small jolt on transmittters that havent been touched ever or in quite a while. To actually build a blood level of a drug, which in turn raises, or lowers certain neurotransmitters, takes many days to weeks. There are initial effects, mostly transitory side effects are what one feels during the stages of antidepressant therapies at the beginning. There may be indeed a very mild lift, but its not typical to have a full effect for some weeks, except for perhaps neuroleptics. Remeron I think is also shorter acting in that regard, but that's just my feeling.
Anyway as it is always stated, the placebo effect can be as much as 1/3 of the treatment -- and if it is, so be it -- either way, something good happened.
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