Well it is the same argument one of my family members used. I believe I am sick and therefore my body starts to be sick and thus creates all the problems, including blood parameters and such. Ergo, if I stop believing to be sick, I would be fine again.
Only I know about the many years I was ignoring everything that happened in my body, since I believed that I was strong and did not have any problems and just needed an extended period of rest. At some point believe was just not enough anymore to function.
It was funny when I told doctors about my tiredness and they said I should work less and the only question I asked myself - how should I work even lesser?
Placebo-sickness, mind-over-matter-disease
I am just happy for the internet as without it, forums like this one wouldn't exist and patients would be left in the hands of authorities that are not carefull and attentive.
I am incredibly worried about the attempts to limit the availability of nutritional supplements as this will again take power of people over themselves and their body and give it again to the hands of authorities that then will decide which supplements a single patient might try or not. Most people here probably know how long they had to wait until something as simple as iron deficiency was diagnosed.
Even though I have a history of hypothyroidism, my iodine status was tested only once in 4 years. The doctor prescribed LT immediately, yet I was deficient in iodine as it turned out later. Now I have to think about a way on how to get away from the pills without suffering for half a year until my thyroid can function itself again. These very hard basic relations seem to cease to exist as soon as there is a double-blind-placebo-controlled-med on the market.
