Alas, such anecdotes are not helpful to the question at hand. There's nothing wrong with taking placebo or the approach that you have as an individual, but you

Alas, such anecdotes are not helpful to the question at hand. There's nothing wrong with taking placebo or the approach that you have as an individual, but you have to be aware that there's no way that you could ever know if there was a causative relationship without a double blind placebo controlled study... which is not something you can realistically do on yourself!