Raheem's On Fire
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The problem with this is that it creates pseudo-cures based on placebo effects. Then these placebo effects build a reputation for effectiveness that they do not deserve and some choose the fake rather than the real.
This happens all the time in tragic cases with things like cancers. People who believed they were cured by copper wristbands, "electromagnetic therapy" or some other quackery. It's not a problem for people to believe this themselves but when they start recommending it to somebody asking if they should undergo chemotherapy then it becomes a moral issue.
Yeah fair point when you bring in cancer treatments or other physical issues which the likes of Noel Edmonds can cure with positive thinking.
Although the chemical imbalance is a clear root cause for many cases of mental illness, just expecting to take a pill and be cured may be equally dangerous and should always be part of a two pronged attack at the problem