No apology needed, rainbow. We all have our own stuff, our own stories, our own pain and there's no need to compare. Your story, your stuff, your pain is just as significant and real to you as mine is to me, or anyone else's is to them. We can always find someone whose pain is greater or whose suffering seems to have been deeper than ours, and we may be right, but it doesn't mean ours is any less meaningful or valid to us. My T tells me this often, because I too feel as though I have suffered so little really.....and have little claim to sympathy or valid right to tears and pain.
You have been working hard and you do deserve praise for that, for your willingness to see yourself more truly and to work on growing and changing for the better!