Is There a Psychological Component to Side Effects From Medication?

There's a big psychological component here like we were talking about at the beginning so are there some people who are more susceptible to this placebo non-responders is it people that are just very rational and they don't get side effects. Well there are optimistic patients that probably you know will tell you mad won’t care I'll be okay and theyDon't really pay attention when told of side effects. Now that's for the optimistic patient the optimistic ideal patient now you have a lot of more pessimistic patients. You also have external factors such as someone else's personal experience with the drug so they'll tell you oh this is really bad for you.

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