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and wants you to be better and that could make a huge difference.
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Also you have hope.
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Typically, there's an enthusiasm behind therapy.
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There's a sense that this might really make me get better
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and that hope could be powerful.
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Sometimes this is viewed under the rubric of a placebo effect,
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which is that maybe the benefits you get
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from therapy aren't due to
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anything in particular the therapist does to you
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but rather to the belief that things are going to get better,
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something is being done that will help you.
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And this belief can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.