Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-75.105.84.125-20131219001500/@comment-24246403-20140104184844

Everland, Lukas is right, both in his reasonings and in regards to your example. People have used their mind to cure a great many things that current western medicine cannot cure. This is known as the Placebo effect. And in several cases, the placebo effect has a higer cure rating than the medications. However, the opposite is true as well. Hypochondriacs tend to make themselves very sick. Let me say that again to clarify. Hypochondriacs tend to make THEMSELVES sick. A hypochondriac is a person who will believe they have almost every disease they hear about, based on the symptoms. And quite often, they cause their own body to behave in a way similar to that of someone battling these diseases, all without the disease ever having been there. The mind, especially the subconscious, is a very powerful thing.