"I'll be real with you… athlete's foot destroyed my confidence more than I thought it could.
At first, I figured it was just dry skin. Something I could fix with lotion.
And yeah, sometimes it would calm down for a few days...
but then it always came back. Usually worse.
It wasn't just the white, flaky patches either.
Sometimes it smelled through my socks.
Sometimes it itched so bad I'd scratch until I bled.
The embarrassment every time someone asked me to take my shoes off was brutal.