Have you ever experienced "placebo effect"?

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I have experienced placebo effect, and it not only helped me sleep better, but also helped me cope up with stress which was threatening to devastate my life to such an extent that I was on brinks of total nervous breakdown. I was sailing on a passenger ship as a junior engineer. The second engineer, who was my boss was a sadistic person who had made my life hell. What was making my life even more miserable was that I wasn't getting relieved even though I had completed my contract. I finally approached the on board doctor, who gave me a pill and said that it would help me sleep better. I got sound sleep that night. This went on for a week till I finally got relieved. Before signing off, I called on the doctor and thanked him for the sleeping pills that he gave me, which helped me sleep peacefully at night. I asked him the name of the sleeping pill. He laughed, and replied, saying that it wasn't sleeping pill but MULTIVITAMIN tablet.