What's the scariest thing you've ever been through?

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Obviously you don't have to share details if you don't want to.

Could be woo, a painful or life threatening situation or x near accident or an existential fear.

I'm going to think what I think mine was. In pain so engaging in distraction

Being SA

Childbirth for me..long induction ending emcs. The absolute scariest thing of my life. Im scared of hospitals

White water rafting was physically scary. Having to tell my small children their Dad had died was emotionally scary.

Being caught up in riot in Africa: stones being thrown, vehicles set alight, teargas.

Severe depression and a terrorist attack. Both terrifying but in different ways.

Being rushed to A+E with sepsis. I could barely stay conscious but was sure if I didn't I wouldn't wake up again.

Rape.

Giving birth 2nd time (cos i knew what i was in for!)
Going into hospital for keyhole surgery (was scared i wouldnt wake up)
Planning my wedding (im having nightmares) part of me want to call it all off...

Obviously i realise people are going through much, much scarier things than this and i should give myself a slap!

Post natal depression - I knew that suicide was the only option and that I had to take my child with me. Scares the shit out of me how close I was.

Oh, and the Aerosmith rollercoaster at disneyland paris. Both me and my son cried!

Losing my 4 year old DS for half an hour in a big foreign coastal city.

I've lived a very sheltered life! When I was young I stupidly smoked some kind of legal high, I collapsed and remember so vividly thinking I was about to die. I was begging my friends to call my Dad and to call an ambulance so I didnt die on the floor. Everyone was too strung out/busy laughing to help and I just remember feeling so sad that I was about to die with none of my family around me.

It was the weirdest feeling, obviously it was just the drugs and I was in no physical danger whatsoever but in that moment it was just a total fact that I was about to die. It was truly terrifying and I've never touched any drugs after that!

Mine was definitely lying down in an MRI scanner and having to stay absolutely still with the scanner right up against my face for what seemed like an eternity (probably about 20 mins). God that was so frightening.

I have awful claustrophobia and the thought of being buried alive is unbearable, it felt similar to that.

Collision at sea in which nine of my colleagues were killed

Getting my first chemo infusion as I rashly took part in 2 trials so the outcome was relatively unknown.
I fully expected to have some sort of bad reaction but happily everything was - and continues to be - okay.

Anaphylaxis when pregnant with DS1. My tongue had swollen up and I was struggling to breathe. DH drove me to A&E and I remember being in resus with numerous people sticking needles in me, giving me oxygen and taking various sats while DH stood against the wall white as a sheet. I honestly thought I might die.

Going in for EMCS, my DH wasn’t there and I had a moment when I thought I was going to do and got very scared. Had never had surgery before or been in distress or even had a broken bone. The aftermath of it was much scarier however.

Conversely I was working abroad and a car bomb went off so close to my apt the building shook. I just lay in bed as I thought a bomb had dropped on the roof and I was waiting for it to go off. I was very calm. Eventually I got up and looked out my window and could see the emergency services dealing with it. Weird how calm I was.

God, ive just remembered another. Being in a sinking boat on holiday in spain, had dh and the 3 kids with us - right out in the deep water and no-one around. The baby was in a buggy. I was just panicking thinking how am i going to hold them all and swim myself? Thank god a speedboat came past and rescued us. When we got to shore I climbed onto the jetty and fell in as my legs just collapsed beneath me they were shaking so much!

die

Realising what I thought was a bit of constipation was actually a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. And sitting up on the hospital trolley and everyone trying to get me to lie down because my blood pressure was dangerously low, but refusing because lying down was too painful. And as a doctor knowing that I had just been told me abdomen was full of blood up to my liver, thinking shit, I might die from this.

And I just felt like I had needed a big poo up to that point. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Raped, beaten and strangled until unconscious. Luckily a friend found me and (very bravely!) chased attacker away.

60mph head in car collision with my mother and young son in the car, fracturing my spine.

Taking medicine plants - ayahuasca/ iboga

chuckyegg don't get married if you're not sure. Makes a mockery of what it means plus it will cause you a lot more pain than calling it off.

When the police told me DH had been found dead after hanging himself. Like feeling full of ice.

Having cardioversion...terrifying.

@SpamChaudFroid I'm so sorry.

I also have vivid memories of my mum calling me from my land line to say that my brother had hanged himself

I knew something was up. No one ever called my landline apart from my mum, ad not at that time.