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

Rolling my car at 60mph. Was taken ill at the wheel, passed out and ended up in the ditch in the other side of the road. God knows how I didn't hit anyone else, it's a very busy bypass.

Knowing that my daughter had been born and not hearing her cry (elcs) and nobody could tell me if she was ok or not was the single most terrifying moment of my life. She was absolutely fine in the end, but those minutes felt like years.

Walking in to a building that was being robbed was scary at the time.

The scariest woo thing was whilst out for a walk with dp (now dh) on a beautiful sunny evening we climbed a hill to look at a building. As we approached it, we both had an overwhelming sense of fear, and need to leave. It was only once we’d safely reached the car that we spoke about it!

Mine pales in comparison to some of these, I'm so sorry for what you've been through

sunshinecake - its not my DP its the thought of everyone looking at me and having to be “on show” IYKWIM. I feel like il be criticised but I dont know why I think that. Im a confident person and didn’t think it would affect me like this as it gets closer.

My little boy having severe crop and losing conciousness and being bluelighted to hospital.

My teenager coming off his bike and being hit by a car .
My husband being I'll with sepsis and the drs not being able to find the cause. He was in hospital for 10 days eventually.

Attempted robbery by 2 people with guns at work. Luckily i managed to keep safe behind shut door and glass window and they decided to leave when shop till was practically empty. Was terrifying and I still think about it most days at work.

Mouth to mouth on my baby
Being threatened with a knife
3yr old Dc missing (for literally 20secs!) and diving into the pool to snatch her out
Teen Dc taking ketamine

Pregnancy. After six miscarriages and two failed IVF I then fell pregnancy again. She is now six months old but I spent every single day and night terrified. I'm not sure I will ever get over it. The lasting effects on my mental health are horrendous. Don't get me wrong I, absolutely blessed to have her but the sheer terror still takes hold of me every single day.

Seeing everyones stories puts things into perspective though

I’ve had a few.

Nearly drowning in a pool aged 8 in my granny’s neighbours garden in Hungary.

Turkish earthquake in 1999 (?)

40 ft near miss in an aircraft coming into land at Charles de Gaulle airport.

Really should stay at home in the UK, these were all abroad 🤔

I lost Ds when he was about 18 months. It was only for 20 mins, but it was horrific.

I was sexually abused by a family member when I was younger. It was a different kind of fear, because I lived with it constantly, but I was low level terrified and on high alert all the time.

My boarding house was above the laundry when I was at school, something in the laundry had broken and the whole building filled with dense steam. We didn’t know that it wasn’t a fire / smoke, and had to run through it and down 2 flights of stairs towards the heat to get out the building.

Being held up at gunpoint in a bank robbery. (Culprits were found some months later doing another one and it was found the guns were loaded and ready to go).

Skid on a wet road going 55mph and rolled my car 2.5 times. Hit a couple bollards, through a fence and then bounced off a few trees. Unclipped my seatbelt and climbed out the top of the driver side door with the help of a passerby

Got taken to A&E in an ambulance and had very minor bruising and whiplash. My car was absolutely mangled. Can't believe I survived. DP said if he'd seen my car before seeing me he'd have thought I was dead.

Being dragged through family courts by EA ex for custody of DC

Being stranded in Birmingham Alabama (USA) all on my own in the middle of the night, with a giant suitcase and nowhere to stay and thousands of miles away from home in Yorkshire!!!!

Pregnant, homeless with a rescue dog that was really reactive to other dogs so not easy to rehome. Giving him up to a shelter would have been a death sentence

In a state of severe mental distress before giving birth, "knowing" that the staff would try to kill or maim me and my babies. My only way out was suicide.

Looking back afterwards, and realising I so nearly didn't see DD1 turn 4, start school......

A tyre blow-out at 50 miles per hour. The car spun out of control and I just held on to the steering wheel and prayed not to die. It took me a couple of years before I could drive past the spot without having flashbacks.

As a young teenager, watching the police manhandle my screaming mother into a police car. I actually wet myself with fear

Also, when ds1 was about 2 years old, we lived in a flat on the first floor, with a fire escape door and staircase directly opposite our front door. I used to use that to get up to the flat, instead of using the main entrance. One day I stood by the door, told ds1 to step back so I could open it- and he stepped sideways, through the iron railings. It was a drop of about 20 feet onto paving slabs. Luckily I managed to grab his coat, which even more luckily (and unusually!) was done up, so I hauled him up and back through the railings.

And lastly- the Tower of Terror at Disneyworld. I'm terrified of heights anyway, but I went on because ds1, the little sod, assured me I'd be fine. I most definitely was not fine He was quite awestruck at the greenness of my face afterwards...

Manchester arena attack. Still have nightmares about it now

DH leaving the house very early one morning with the intention of taking his own life.
He always left early for work anyway and I'd been up for about 15 minutes before I spotted a note he'd left.
I remember my legs physically shaking and the police officer telling me it was a normal reaction.
Thankfully he was brought home safely.

The car was a total write-off, smashed back window, all corners bashed in, stuff leaking from underneath - I was so lucky I didn't have a scratch on me.

Taking my baby to my GP and then on to hospital (alone) at the age of two weeks, thinking they were completely blind, and the following months when we found out they weren't, but had a genetic condition which includes a very severe visual impairment.

Thinking I was dying after an adverse reaction to antibiotics - they stripped my gut lining and I was passing pure blood. I have never known pain like it.

Knowing from blood tests (it was written on the bottom) that my eldest was likely suffering from an autoimmune condition, which would ultimately result in their death with no treatment, added to a GP who thought it was ok for them to wait several weeks to be seen. It took me two weeks of frantic phone calls to get someone to listen.
I have no idea who the lady is, but thank God for the clinic receptionist who did finally listen, went to see the consultant whilst I was on the phone, and arranged for my child to be seen the next day at our regional hospital.
The day after that, we were sent to a specialist hospital, for the diagnosis and the treatment that saved my child's life.

For me, when I thought I was dying, I was filled with regret for my children, but that pales in comparison with knowing that there is something wrong with your child that there is literally nothing you can do about.
(I have suffered from anxiety in later years, and have only realised recently that I probably suffer from PTSD.)
It's a truly awful situation to be in.

The first time my Dd had a febrile convulsion. I know now they are harmless and am relatively calm when it happens but that first time - Jesus Christ I was hysterical down the phone to 999 and it still brings me to tears to think about it too much

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