The Dramatic Cure

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

4.6 • 40.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In recent months, many of us have become familiar with the sense of fear expressing itself in our bodies. We may feel restless or physically exhausted. At times, we may even have trouble catching our breath. The deep connection between mind and body that seems so salient now was also at the center of our episode about the placebo effect. This week, we return to this 2019 story that asks what placebos might teach us about the nature of healing.

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0:00.0	At the end of March, New York magazine published a story with a title,
0:04.5	is my chest tightness anxiety or the coronavirus?
0:09.0	The author was concerned because for days,
0:12.0	she felt tightness in her chest.
0:15.0	That can be a symptom of COVID-19.
0:18.0	But it's also a symptom of anxiety.
0:21.0	In the last couple of months,
0:23.0	many of us have become familiar with the feeling of fear,
0:26.0	expressing itself in our bodies.
0:29.0	We may feel restless, physically exhausted.
0:32.0	At times, we may even have trouble catching our breath.
0:37.0	This deep connection between mind and body
0:40.0	made us think about an episode we did a while back,
0:42.0	about a dimension of medicine that few of us recognize.
0:46.0	And we thought we'd bring it back today
0:48.0	as a reminder of how our minds are tied to our physical suffering
0:52.0	and the complex ways in which healing unfolds.
0:56.0	Here's the episode.
0:59.0	This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanta.
1:02.0	When you're eight years old,
1:06.0	it's not easy to say goodbye to your dad for a whole year.
1:10.0	But that's what Andrew Marvin had to do.
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