{"id":90174,"date":"2026-06-03T08:44:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90174"},"modified":"2026-06-03T08:44:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:44:23","slug":"i-made-my-husband-ill-with-a-few-words-nobody-is-immune-to-the-power-of-the-nocebo-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/03\/i-made-my-husband-ill-with-a-few-words-nobody-is-immune-to-the-power-of-the-nocebo-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"I made my husband ill with a few words \u2013 nobody is immune to the power of the nocebo effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D4E12AQHTOyOPCQJNWg\/article-cover_image-shrink_600_2000\/article-cover_image-shrink_600_2000\/0\/1659886349873?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=y6CRI6lNo-5j0tb6CQbZZ_TGA2LbX_C1x_7yNFX3oIk\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For his last birthday, I gave my husband a monthly beer box subscription. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/other\/i-made-my-husband-ill-with-a-few-words-nobody-is-immune-to-the-power-of-the-nocebo-effect\/ar-AA22FtJA?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a1fe0f2be1c4ceb9dee3257a31396ce&ei=38\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>For his last birthday, I gave my husband a monthly beer box subscription. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/brain-xray.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90175,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90174\/revisions\/90175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}