PLACEBO
noun
A simulated or otherwise medically ineffectual
treatment for a disease or other medical condition intended to deceive the
recipient.
source: wikipedia.org
PLACEBO EFFECT
noun
The phenomenon of a patient's perceived medical
improvement following treatment with an inert substance. The theory suggests it
is produced by self-fulfilling effects of response expectancies, in which the
belief that one will feel different leads a person to actually feel different.
source: wikipedia.org
SCHIZOPHRENIA
noun
A mental disorder characterized by a breakdown of
thought processes and by poor emotional responsiveness. A person diagnosed with
schizophrenia may experience hallucinations (most reported are hearing voices),
delusions (often bizarre or persecutory in nature), and disorganized thinking
and speech. In worse cases, they are unable to distinguish reality from
hallucinations.
source: wikipedia.org
DEPERSONALIZATION DISORDER
noun
The core symptom of depersonalization disorder is
the subjective experience of "unreality in one's sense of self", and
as such there are no clinical signs.
Individuals who experience depersonalization can
feel divorced from their own personal physicality by sensing their body
sensations, feelings, emotions and behaviors as not belonging to the same
person or identity.
source: wikipedia.org
MIMIC
verb
1. to imitate or copy in action, speech, etc.,
often playfully or derisively.
2. to imitate in a servile or unthinking way; ape.
3. to be an imitation of; simulate; resemble
closely.
source: dictionary.reference.com
FEIGN
verb
1. to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance
of
2. to invent fictitiously or deceptively, as a
story or an excuse
3. to imitate deceptively
source: dictionary.reference.com
HOAX
noun
something intended to deceive or defraud
source: dictionary.reference.com
REALITY
noun
In philosophy, reality is the state of things as
they actually exist, rather than as they may appear or might be imagined. In a
wider definition, reality includes everything that is and has been, whether or
not it is observable or comprehensible. A still more broad definition includes
everything that has existed, exists, or will exist.
source: wikipedia.org
ESSENCE
noun
the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of
something, especially something abstract, which determines its character. In
philosophy, essence is the attribute or set of attributes that make an entity
or substance what it fundamentally is, and which it has by necessity, and
without which it loses its identity.
source: oxforddictionaries.com & wikipedia.org
SENSE
noun
1. One of the methods for a
living being to gather data about the world; sight, smell, hearing, touch,
taste.
2. A general conscious
awareness.
3. The meaning, reason, or
value of something.
source: en.wiktionary.org
IDENTITY
noun
In philosophy, identity, from Latin: identitas
("sameness"), is the relation each thing bears just to itself.
source: wikipedia.org
