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There's probably something to this. I've been a miserable old man since the age of about 19, and I'm now 31, with arthritis, gall stones and kidney stones.

I think it was Seneca who said something along the lines of "When I think as an old man, I have become an old man.". This isn't new knowledge, but something that we seem to have to keep reminding ourselves of.

Also, placebos.




Or, perhaps more apt to your point, nocebos.




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