Sometimes people will report experiencing improvements in symptoms when they are trialling a new drug or treatment because they think they should be and not because they actually are. This is called a placebo effect because sometimes patients on a placebo will report improvements in symptoms due to the "drug" they are taking when in fact the placebo is an inactive sugar pill that has no pharmaceutical benefit.
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