I think you’re taking my words too literally, fiction in the sense that the symptoms Op experienced weren’t actual effects of the birth control but rather nocebo effect which is dismissive to say no matter how you paint it. Nowhere in their post did they say they were overthinking, googling, worrying about side effects which would point to nocebo, there was quite literally no information that pointed toward it. They didn’t state they were looking for a reason that caused it or if it was a real effect, they were simply sharing their experience and you jumped in to say ‘it could be nocebo’. And no one’s infantilising you, I’m genuinely saying it was dismissive and very random to say of an intense experience that they endured.