Ask HN: How do billionaires deal with their anxiety?

Re:Ask HN: How do billionaires deal with their anxiety? by loeg on Monday June 11, 2018 @04:19PM (#17288154)

I certainly did not mean to suggest that they were some magic bullet, or that anyone should take them daily for extended periods of time. Your doctor should work with you to determine the correct dose and duration. Or if you self-medicate, you should thoroughly research anything you're thinking about taking before doing so. Benzos can be taken daily for something like a month.[0]

[0]: https://www.jpshealthnet.org/sites/default/files/prescribing...

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Re:Ask HN: How do billionaires deal with their anxiety? by skinnymuch on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @11:51AM (#17294438)

That’s just not true, taking it for a month daily will not work. I haven’t looked at studies recently but the few psychiatrists I know, none believe you can take a bento for a month daily with it still being effective. Same with people taking it. Placebo can be a powerful thing.

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Re:Ask HN: How do billionaires deal with their anxiety? by loeg on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @02:38PM (#17296468)

That contention does not match my understanding, but I would love to read more if you have some published studies to point to.

Taking the claim at face value: if the effect at one month is entirely placebo, isn't that still useful for treatment?

(You're not trying to claim that the entire effect on day 1 is placebo, right? I think that's pretty clearly false.)

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