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What difficult/unpleasant experience are you most proud of yourself for making it through? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by lady_maria to c/asklemmy

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Personally, most of my life has been both difficult and unpleasant due to mental health issues (and capitalism), so I'm just proud of myself for still being here.

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[–] garbagebagel 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ok so I have a super unserious one compared to everyone here but I am legit really proud of myself for it.

I have pretty bad trypophobia where I will have a pretty extreme visceral reaction to many different holes, patterns of them, etc. This includes nail holes in the wall so I have a hard time putting things up and especially taking things down. When I moved places a few years ago I tried to face this extremely irrational fear and made myself fill every single nail hole in our old apartment. I felt so ill and honestly still feel ill even typing this out. I had to lay down on the floor in the dark apartment for what felt like hours because I was so nauseous. But I did it. Never fucking doing it again, but I did it and nobody can take that from me. This year I even put up two frames all by myself.