What was a big problem in your life that you were able to fix?

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1. I lived with severe anxiety w/panic disorder as well as depression. A little over 2 years ago, my life as I knew it was destroyed. A voice in my head told me I wasn’t going to survive the ordeal without help. So I got a therapist and started taking meds to help with my anxiety which turned in to taking an antidepressant.

   I honestly don’t know how I ever made it as long as I did. When I look back on my life it’s like I’m looking through a different person. And I myself am a totally different person.

2. The exhaustion of dealing with a needy/demanding “friend”. Asserting myself and reminding myself that what I wanted/needed **mattered** made a big difference to my life. I didn’t even “cut her off” in a grand dramatic fashion, but not giving in to her all the time meant that she removed herself from my life, basically, and I was vastly happier as a result.

3. I am a procrastinator and when my father passed away I was tasked with handling his estate and it was so easy to ingnor the piles of papers on my table.

   I decided to do one thing a day no matter how small. It could be mail a letter or make a phone call and often once I started I would do more than one thing. Eventually it was all take care of.

   I still struggle with procrastinating but if just do a little bit every day it really does make a difference.

4. Entirely abandoning Christianity in my late 20s was the best thing I have ever done.

5. My toilet made a weird noise when it filled up the tank after each flush. It bothered the crap out of me for almost 2 years. I got fed up and took a look at it.

   The plumber installed the float inside wrong, I literally fixed it in 5 mins.

   Silent flushes since then, I make it a point to go poop in that bathroom now.

   Fix your problems now, not later.