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Lost the sedative effect: the psychology behind the closure
The government intended to produce a placebo effect in closure, in which the patient believes he has consumed a real drug and his condition is improving.
In practice, she did just the opposite and put us all in a state of stress.
And yes, that too has a reference in the world of psychology
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Dana Pan Luzon
Monday, 21 September 2020, 00:01
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Infection data reached new heights and Israel entered a second closure, the first country in the Western world to take such an extreme step for the second time.
The thinking behind the closure was optimistic: perhaps what did not work the first time will succeed this time, but the outline is perforated, illogical and smells of politics.
This past weekend has been good enough proof that the closure is full of options to get around it, and the public has long since stopped listening to the guidelines.
When there is no vaccine, quarantine should be a kind of placebo drug, to give initial support, mostly mental, to the public.
It does not really have the ingredients needed to beat the spread of the corona, and the evidence for improving the morbidity condition it did not provide in the first-time test.
What the government has again failed to do is educate and understand that a placebo drug has been found to be effective and efficient only when the patient himself is convinced and believes that it can improve his condition and he is willing to take it.
If you wanted a winning answer to the question of why closure in its form can not really benefit here is the answer: when there is no trust the dummy is ineffective.
A placebo / placebo is a treatment in which a patient is given a substance without effects and its main purpose is to examine the physiological effect due to the psychological effect caused by the patient knowing that he has received a drug.
The fact that the patient understands that he is under the influence of a drug produces in the body a change.
He may develop improvement in the symptoms of the disease even though he has not received any real medicine and no active ingredient.
The placebo effect is not limited to pills and medicines.
A computer game called Re Mission (Re-Mission) is given to children with cancer.
In this game the players simulate a nanobot whose job is to eliminate cancer cells in a human body.
Sick children who played with it at the same time as treatments showed an improvement in their health.
Through the power of thought they were able to fight disease within their body.
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The important conclusion that emerges from years of use of the placebo drug is that its effect depends on the patient's belief, or as they simply say "everything in the head".
The placebo effect, or in this case the closure effect, affects people differently.
If they believe the chances of the drug working increase.
Among a person with a high level of hope, optimism and trust in the therapist there will be an increase in the chances of success.
Studies have found that a positive mood also affects the chances of the sham drug.
In contrast, stress, anxiety and mistrust are highly correlated with drug failure.
In a reality of political chaos, an exacerbating crisis of confidence and economic anxiety, did anyone really think a second closure would work?
How was it at all conceivable that the ineffective sham drug, the one that failed to cure the country in March-April, would have an effect and build trust for the second time?
Many things affect the success of the placebo effect.
It grows as the pill grows, or if there are two pills instead of one.
A simple pill is less effective than the branded one, and if there is a discount on a drug it will affect us less.
Colors also have an effect.
Red medicine acts as a stimulant and a soothing blue.
Yes, your medications have different colors and it is not accidental, appearance has meaning.
So when our imaginary ball looks even worse than its predecessor, when it is full of guys and with options to circumvent the guidelines, when it is constantly changing according to such and such policies - what can we expect?
Why would the patient agree to swallow such a pill and further convince himself that she is the one who will cure him of an epidemic?
The government hoped the sham closure would succeed in affecting the loosening of discipline and put everyone in houses.
It only worked on some of the citizens, simply because one has to want and believe.
Instead of a placebo - a standbo (Photo: Government Press Office)
The trouble does not end here.
On the contrary, it could be even worse.
His condition is a case where the patient thinks that the treatment is supposed to harm him and indeed his condition deteriorates after him, even if it was a sham treatment.
The negative effect is not caused by the substance given to the patient (because he was not given anything active). The negative effect is caused by other factors such as the patient's distrust of the doctor's ability or his ability to be cured.
The more we are exposed to a reality where the morbidity rises, there is really no orderly way or proper treatment of the plague and the general feeling that we have lost control, the more likely we are to feel sick and the negative postural effect, unlike the positive placebo, is the one that gets stronger.
Negative information burdens the emotional system especially when it comes from an authoritative source and can cause pain, and then the expectations themselves for the illness produce the symptoms.
The expectation of a worsening of the condition produces the neurotransmitters that increase sensitivity to pain and other symptoms.
This is a vicious circle and the intensity of the narcissist is no less frightening.
A large study examining the cause of death of American Chinese in California - 28,169 in number - found that people who believed that the astrological year in which they were born makes them particularly sensitive to certain conditions, died significantly earlier than people with the same conditions born in other years.
Yes, this is the power of negative belief.
Can't work just because the government imposed it.
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Dana Pan Luzon (Photo: Nir Keidar)
First closure, second closure - no matter how many times we repeat the experiment to test the effectiveness of the drug, even if as in the previous time it will lead to a temporary decrease in morbidity. The public already knows that quarantine will not eradicate the plague, but only an unsuccessful sham drug to feel that something has been done. Many experts and doctors have signed a letter proving that closure is ineffective. It is a placebo that only produces more diseases (such as anxiety), or in other words - it really is not a cure.
The quarantine cannot work just because the government imposed it, just as a placebo does not work just because you swallow an empty pill. The pill works when you are ready to take it and swallow it, it works when you are ready to enlist for the mission and especially when you are willing to believe in it and its effectiveness.
The author holds a bachelor's degree in communication, economics and psychology.
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