empathy

Scared millennial girl sitting alone in the city next to a brick wall

My experience of bullying

I was bullied at school, although not until my sixth and final year of high…

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Photo of Dr David R Hamilton with his hands in prayer at the height of his chest.

Prayer

“I don’t need science to tell me if prayer works!” a friend once told me.

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hands of different colours making an outline of a heart

Countering with kindness

A lady named Maureen once told me of the time when she was driving towards…

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A scale showing the balance between placebo and nocebo

The nocebo effect

Positive expectations drive the placebo effect, whereas negative expectations drive the nocebo effect. In both cases, the brain simply does what it can to meet these expectations.

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