I work for an it department who resells their old stock online, we scrub the disks before sales, physical destruction is not possible.

It won’t stop “anyone”, I’ve been lead to believe there are ways even after a single pass, to recover data. if I had anything to hide, I would use a physical destruction method, nothing else

Use shred , it will automate multiple random passes, and finish with a zero pass.

That eyes closed feeling of the tiny/huge room/space has never left me, its been 40 years since my glandular fever, and I still have flashbacks.

Get enough sleep, is my first and most important strategy.

Monkey’s paw: it is a potion with an aoe 10’ radius, makes everyone violently ill.

You’ll never see above the clouds if you don’t put in the effort to climb the mountain. Be brave and risk getting hurt, it’s normal to be scared, but there’s no way to get the best out of life without making yourself vulnerable.