Which event caused a complete behavioral change in your life?

This is something I've written about at great length on other forums. The summary:

As a thirteen year-old struggling with violent thoughts, I made a very clear, internal decision one day that 'no one else would understand, was like me, or could help me', and that I would NOT ask anyone for help with this challenge - no matter what.

This led to almost ten years of various kinds of unhealthy behavior such as: lying, concealing, self-medicating, hiding, procrastinating, and more. Of course, those behaviors led me to get into trouble in various ways.

Ultimately this decision shaped, in large part, who I am today for the better, as I was forced to work my way through these issues in the decade that followed, repairing myself emotionally, mentally, physically, & spiritually.

We need to go through whatever our soul needs us to go through, even if that's painful. So I don't regret it.

Instead I choose to use it as fuel for my passion to help others.

Recovering from the lowest point referred to in #1.

My time here opened my eyes to two major things:

1) That my decision not to ask for help (#1) was incorrect & based on faulty logic.

2) That other people could not only understand my suffering, but that their relative level of suffering could be far worse.

Not an event that I took a direct hand in, but, certainly shaped my life in a major way.

This is different from #2. I'm simply pointing out the possibility that we choose to come into the world (in a very specific form, time, & place) for a reason.

This was a milestone (in 2007) in they way I ate & approached nutrition for the rest of my life. I haven't eaten gluten since, for example.

IIN class of 2017

Class 39

This was in 2013, and I haven't missed one day of posting since, so, that's a big behavior change.

In addition, this led indirectly to many other positive changes & connections.