that's a lot of questions!
very nice pics btw I like that of the butterfly lavender the most!
I've made plenty of breakthroughs if you don't mind me calling it. I got a feeling we read the same books haha. They were scary at first but later on it becomes some sort of a life style but then that's cause I changed something in me and stopped feeding the part of my brain that trigger's fear. It's nothing special, I just stopped watching horror nor reading it as well as any violent films or programmings that make my heart beat fast. I've changed more inside I'd rather not discuss that but you probably know ;)
Yes, it gave me a whole different point of view. I used to be a worrier but these days, something difficult or stressful comes out I either asked first about what can I do to solve it or asked someone's opinion cause others may be seeing something in the "what seem to be a tough situation" that am not.
Yes, It changed my core beliefs a whole lot back when I was still a teen but I don't think I have to go through a certain suffering though I did back then but I was young and ignoramus and that's part of learning. I guess as we get older we tend to be more tolerant, open minded and things become easy to accept than to resist from but that's my opinion
lol on your "suffering club" I used to belong there till I changed something in me that was actually causing it which you probably know what that is ;)