Psychological placebo of life and psychological exploration

Through these years of psychological understanding and self-thinking and discussion, through this series of continuous thinking and writing is my psychological cognition and summary of it.

The greatest discovery of our time is that humans can change their mindset to change their lives.

--William James

People are need to comfort, perhaps in life, unconsciously, intentional or unintentional, active or passive, we have a lot of comfort, we also released a lot of comfort, if a person no pain no one love (or feel Not), verdict, Heart like an island, I think this is definitely not any one has the heartbeat has the blood of the person's pursuit of life, How else can a person have the confidence to live?

So, how does psychology explain the placebo effect?

To understand this, I would like to talk about the placebo effect of psychology. From the concept of biology and medicine it is easy to say that the placebo effect is a pill that, on the surface, looks like a real medicine. In other words, its shape, taste and color may be the same as the real medicine, but it does not contain any ingredients, but because people do not know that the doctor gave him a placebo, not a real drug. Thus, people psychologically think that they have been cured by medicine, in reality, there are indeed many people in the placebo has been curative effect, and then he will obviously improve its body function. Studies have taken place, patients unknowingly received treatment, and many of the symptoms of specific diseases have been effectively alleviated, such as paranoia, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and other traditional drugs can not be completely cured of the disease.

We take this as a consolation, and the psychological change, and thus also have a therapeutic effect of this phenomenon, known as placebo.

In daily life, we can see a lot of placebo phenomenon, understand this point, we should understand what we use it to do? Or how do we use it to get a desired effect?

In fact, I would like to cite a few practical examples to illustrate that the silent cure of this placebo is very common.

We often can see, a lovely child fell, fall pain, or where the cut, the mother picked up the child pain, touch the head, or blow the tone, and then comfort the child said not to cry not to cry, to his hands stuffed with small toys and other things, the child's attention shifted, psychological has been comforted, He did not cry at once, and he was happy again. is not simple blow a blow, touch a touch, the pain disappears, in fact, not so, we can understand, this is a child feel the warmth, focus shifted, and deeper, and now we can say is the psychological comfort effect of the impact.

In the medical field, the placebo effect is a very common phenomenon, doctors understand and use the placebo effect can greatly enhance the patient's healing effect. There is such an interesting phenomenon, why many of us are sick and want to find a venerable old doctor, not a young hair-headed lad or a person who feels very unstable to go to the doctor. Some people say that he thinks the old skill is more skillful, actually the situation is, this young person's level is higher, but still is the doctor level, but the patient just does not believe, so the young doctor also very injustice.

In fact, the placebo effect is in effect. The average person will think that an old doctor, regardless of level, gives the impression that the level is high, otherwise he can live to now still treat people? And in the human cognition inside, the old doctor gives the person the feeling is, the venerable, the Miaoshouhuichun, the steady collapse, but also hangs the various thanks to the banner, this also lets the person in the heart have a kind of the speechless feeling that collapses, a kind of trust especially is born. In such an understanding, the old doctor had already accounted for a relatively strong placebo effect, when a patient looking for a doctor, he first looked at the doctor is the appearance of people and doctors to give him the feeling, rather than the level of the doctor, so the patient itself will immediately guess, this doctor can not let him rest assured that can be competent for my treatment, this is more psychological level.

There is a story, said is a girl, the face has ulcers, just started to find a young doctor to heal, from the data indicators, seems to be cured every time, but every few days this girl and feel the face very pain, and to find this doctor, so several times, this doctor patience, he does not understand, Why this female patient so difficult, obviously good, she means not good. But from the angle of female patients, she is very helpless, is painful ah uncomfortable, of course, perhaps her psychological problems, although the disease is good, but it is uncomfortable ah.

So, the patient every day to haunt the doctor, said you want to give me medicine, I can not stand the pain! This doctor is also very helpless, no matter how to cure, she still very painful ah, this ulcer also Jiuzhi, seems and medical care itself no concern, more is psychological problems. This doctor really has no way, later this person really can't, went to find his teacher, his teacher is also very famous expert, he told his teacher this patient is very difficult to cure, I do not know how to do now. He explained the situation to the teacher, the teacher laughed and listened carefully, said let her come, I can cure her. When the patient found this doctor again, he told the patient, this is my teacher, the industry famous experts, today specially to give you a doctor, the patient after listening very happy, promised to let the old doctor to her cure.

In fact, the old doctor's method is very simple, this method is generally unexpected, the old doctor took over, told the woman patient's condition is not light ah, this woman patient A think not well, oneself all very painful, said her heart went, then the old doctor very earnestly asked the patient of some other situation, such as what time do you get up? Do you encounter unhappy things in your life? It was a great pleasure to say to her that I knew how to cure you, and that the woman was very pleased with the things that seemed to be unrelated to the illness.

The patient saw the old doctor came when the behavior is very peculiar, took a gigantic leaves, very carefully walked in, and then put the medicinal materials in a water cup inside, the water bubbles, smoke, in short, very mysterious appearance. After chatting, the old doctor said, you wait for me to take the medicine to you, so the old doctor called a few colleagues in the office busy to busy, make the full of sweat, and then add Aoyao of the voice of the Haw Niu, a vibrant scene, finally put the medicine good irrigation, the old doctor said to the female patients, this is a specific cure, All you have to do is listen to me and do as I say, and you take this back. You try to match the medicine that the doctor gave you before, and you will be better off.

Sure enough, the old doctor cured the woman's illness. Afterwards, the doctor was very curious, why the old doctor shot, the problem solved it. This doctor to teacher admire of pleasantly surprised, say teacher you really powerful, so difficult illness you suddenly took care of. The teacher mysteriously smiled, in fact, the leaf is just ordinary tree leaves, all this is to let patients believe this medicine, from the psychological level to accept the placebo.

We can actually get two conclusions from this story: one is the demeanor of the doctor's behavior, which makes the patient convinced that he is being watched and convinced that the treatment is effective, and the second is that the human body has an important clue to the disease, and that each person's inner body has some kind of self-healing ability, the key is how we dig, Or if you can recognize the words, can not rely on others, only on their own to solve?

These two problems are also my personal learning psychology The biggest experience, understand psychology, in most cases can solve their own psychological problems, so as to promote their physical and mental health, and may help others. That is to say, the Doctor is medical, but the medicine here is not the concept of traditional medicine, but to solve the problem.

For treatment, whether you are using medication or psychological intervention in psychology, you have to face a placebo effect. Effective psychological intervention, the belief in health, your treatment methods and the prevention of disease will have a good impact.

In learning and studying psychology, we should learn to control emotions and other non-main purposes, but also understand the motives and objectives of people to find and solve problems.

such as doctors (even ordinary people, I hope that each of us not so urgent, do not rush to interrupt others, learn to listen, you will find life is much better) how to be a good listener, patient listening to the patient's talk, how to help patients to adapt to re-establish the goal of life, How to make the patient understand the new life motive is very important for his quality of life and the rehabilitation of the disease. The efficacy of the placebo can be told in advance that, in most cases, patients can consciously self-solve some of the psychological problems that non-medical technology can solve.

Psychological placebo of life and psychological exploration