Thank you all

If you have ever contributed to this site or plan to I want to say thank you. Let me tell you why.I had absolutely zero phobias my entire life until I was 24. You see I grew up in Northern Michigan where we actually have more lakes than Minnesota Land of 10,000 Lakes. Water was nothing new to me but unbeknownst to me one thing was common during all of my lake-faring adventures...I could see the bottom of the lake through the water.Long story short, I enlisted in the Army when I was 24 and my first duty station was Okinawa, Japan. We flew out of Seattle's airport toward Tokyo at midnight where we would change planes and eventually land on Kadena Air Base. This is when I found out I had thalassophobia.You see, I was in coach with my family. At the barrier between coach and 1st class there was a wall and on that was was a massive flat screen. if you have never flown Nippon Air, I reccomend it On the flat screen was a live feed coming from a camera at the nose of the plane looking down the runway. It was super cool, you could see the other planes taking off and landing and you saw the plane you were in take off live I love flying.The plane took off and all I saw was open blue skies, so beautiful. Then the camera rotated straight down. I saw Tokyo, suburbs, farms, fields, then whoosh, OPEN OCEAN. My palms froze to the seat, my back became rigid and I started to profusely sweat. My wife looked at me and saw me. Apparently I was white as a ghost. She gave me a magazine and had me block the screen until they started an in-flight movie about safety.From that point on, I knew I had the phobia. It wasn't until I saw this sub-reddit that I found out its name. So I subscribed, and with ever pic, movie and GIF that gets uploaded I beat that fear back one post at a time.So thank you all for helping me with this debilitating phobia.