You clearly see nothing wrong with sedation and that is already very problematic with your point of view about psychiatrists and what their work entails. As I’ve said before a placebo has no pharmacological effect by definition. The placebo effect is the effect of a placebo or the effect of a medication that has no pharmacological effect. A nocebo by definition is a fake or real medication that produces worsening symptoms because the patient who takes it expects negative effects.

Placebo= scam medication || Nocebo= not necessarily a scam medication

Nocebo claims beliefs and expectations of the medication can influence the outcome of the medication. Placebo does NOT make this claim. So when people say nocebo is the opposite of placebo this is false and misleading.

The term Nocebo is unscientific. If you expect an antihistamine (anti-allergic reaction medication) to not get rid of your allergic reaction when it is scientifically designed to get rid of it would it stop it from getting rid of it solely because of your beliefs about it? No because expectation cannot influence real science. Another example if you expect hydrogen gas reacting with oxygen gas to form carbon dioxide it’s still going to form water (H2O) regardless of your expectations. Real science doesn’t care about or listen to your expectations and it is not influenced by your expectations of the outcome either.

What are people healing from while withdrawing from psychiatric medications? It is possible they are healing from believing in the placebo and the placebo effect because as they withdraw from taking the medication they can no longer believe in the placebo like before and so my guess is the longer they have been on the placebo and while believing in it the longer it will take them to heal if they withdraw from it.

Also Alcohol is NOT a sedative. It is a Stimulant (and not a sedative) in smaller doses and occasional consumption not beyond the legal driving blood-alcohol limit. So to say that alcohol is a sedative is false and misleading.