Placebos work even when you know they don't contain medicine

[Mister44]

@Medievalist

People have been known to heal themselves through anger, too; I’ve harnessed that effect myself. And I’ve watched people die of despair, which can happen remarkably quickly.

I wonder if it isn’t anger, per se, but purpose. Anger often leads to a purpose. I know a guy who thinks his father lived several extra years because he was at war with a heron eating his gold fish out of his pond.