A placebo becomes the nation’s leading antidepressant.

“You HAVE to listen to the latest Hidden Brain podcast, I love Shankar Vedantam… This one is all about placebos and their role in health care. We are very easily influenced. Even when we know we’re taking a placebo. It’s bloody weird but bloody interesting…” my therapist trailed off, “perhaps we’ll even be able to stop meeting up.”

I wanted nothing else.

I put my ear pods in. I’d start listening right away.