Shannon's Journal Discussion Volume 3

[Shannon]

Hi Shannon, when you read people's journals, how do you differentiate between real and placebo effects?

Part of it is knowing what's in the script. Part of it is knowing what placebo is, and how it works. Very few people can get a placebo response that lasts a long time, for instance. In most cases, it fades within a week or two of the start of the program.

The issue there is that there is another reaction that does the same thing, which is actually a resistance response. Sometimes a person will start off with a good response and slowly choke it to nothing in a resistance reaction.

It becomes very challenging in some cases, and it requires a lot of careful observation and an understanding of the basic personality in question and what their history is, etc.

Sometimes, I can't tell, and I have to simply ignore that data point.