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 told in A&E that they were paging for the surgeons as they suspected a rare form of breast cancer and the fast track referral appointment being three days later. Thankfully it wasn't, but those three days were so long.

My dad having sepsis. Being in A&E as he dropped in and out of consciousness and the doctors having no clue what was up with him and asking me to keep him conscious.

Having to do a full brace position emergency landing after the planes landing gears didn't work. Hours of circling, dumping fuel etc. Probably worse for my mum watching the whole thing live on sky news. Finding out they'd shut all the motorways close to Gatwick because they weren't sure where we would end up landing made it a lot more real. How I got on another plane the next day I don't know.

Miscarrying and bleeding very heavily on the toilet alone in the house with two toddlers at my feet. Hospital were useless made me feel like an inconvenience, later got told I should have been admitted.

Watching a friends 9 year old daughter die of cancer put my life into perspective

DS scalded all down his body on holiday age 1. Terrifying!

Being in police custody.

hairbrush we had a near miss like that in a snowstorm. I kept asking DH to pull in somewhere and we’d drive the next day, there were trucks spun off the road in the median strip. The car in front of us spun around, we couldn’t brake for fear of the same, don’t know how we missed it but we did

And bleeding massively with my child during pregnancy. I don't think anything can explain that terror.

DS(6) going missing in a forest (with a lake), at dusk, for about 45 minutes. It was as if time slowed right down. I still get palpitations every time I think of it.

The police turning up at our door when I was 10, handing over my dad's mangled bicycle, and telling us he was in hospital after being hit by a lorry. He survived for many years, but his injuries affected him badly until the day he died.

Rushing my 4 week old to hospital after the GP told me not to wait for an ambulance. Watching him go grey and floppy and be resuscitated, watching the monitors all night long, all the tests they had to do, it still makes me cry when I think of it. He had sepsis, flu and pneumonia which has lead to some developmental issues and hearing loss but thankfully he is still here.

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Emergency plane landing after the landing gear failed.

The run up to my crash section when in labour with my first child.

Armed robbery when I worked at the coop.

My god you amazing, strong, marvellous, resilient human beings. I’m in awe of everyone.

Right now, my Dad died unexpectedly yesterday. Me, my Mum and sister are in Turkey and I am utterly terrified of going home and making it properly real

So sorry @Pyjamaface. Cannot imagine how you are feeling right now. Stick together.

So sorry for so many not only scary but heart breaking and life altering things. 💐

Watching a friend nearly die in front of me.

Seeing my child be resuscitated- part of me died that day. Changed me a lot as a person, a few years down the line part of my brain still hurts/is kind of numb.

Thankfully, we got her back but I didn't see how I would live past it, or how my marriage could survive it not working

@Pyjamaface I'm so sorry

Thanks. I've probably killed the thread now but I needed to put it somewhere

to everyone. Life is so cruel sometimes.

Not sure what to pick, there have been many - this is my list, in no particular order:

• Sexual abuse as a child
• Sexual assault and rape as an adult
• Watching my mum die in a very unpleasant way
• Nearly drowning in a pool while trying to save my baby brother
• 40 agonising minutes of them trying to get a spinal in while my son wasn’t moving
• Not getting to see my twins for the first seven hours and thinking one had died
• An accident where I nearly lost my arm
• Having stitches in my eyelid (I’m terrified of needles)
• A gynae procedure that was meant to be done under sedation but wasn’t (weirdly this is the thing that’s caused me the most trauma)

The day my mum died was terrifying for lots of reasons.

Hearing the thud of my mum collapsing in the next room. I went to go rushing in but she had collapsed in front of the door and (from the tiny amount I could open the door) watching her having a fit, while vomiting green stuff.

Watching 2 ambulances and the police turn up to help us gain access into the room where she was and one of the police officers telling me 'If she dies, you know you did all you could'

Getting the phone call at 11pm to tell us that she had crashed and we needed to get there now.

The night following her dying where everything felt cold, dark and empty.

Going into the room where she collapsed and seeing the rubbish left by the paramedics, the green fluid that she was vomiting and (I swear) a body shaped mark in the carpet.
I had to sell the house.

It's been 8 months and I still have huge anxiety attacks when I think about that night.

I'm crying reading a lot of your stories. I can't imagine how you are feeling

8 years ago I was in Iraq, in a small city where my family are from. Sitting with my cousins wife when she receives a phonecall that her husband's (my cousin) post (He's in the army) had blown up. For hours we had no idea where he was or if he died. He then comes through the door, and seeing my aunt, uncle, his sister and wife how relieved they all were whilst I just broke down in tears.
He was explaining what had happened, how he very nearly missed the bombs, but watching his own friends die in front of him.

Going blind for about an hour following a motorbike crash. They eventually determined it was the shock of it but for that hour it was awful.

Ds Neuro surgery...9 hours felt like a lifetime, I just couldn't understand that the rest of the world could just be having a normal day. He recovered :)

I've had a few.
Abusive relationship I didn't realise til I left how frightened I was as it had slowly crept up, I felt like a ten ton weight had been lifted when I finally left with dd. Still 13 years on I think back and realise what an evil man he was.

Dd2s first febrile convulsion I had no idea what it was and she was blue, I'll never forget the colour of her feet they were almost navy. She carried on having them every time she was ill for five years after.

The time she was admitted after two pretty severe fits, she was so poorly but they couldn't find what was wrong. I was woken up in the night to say they needed to take more blood as her infection markers were so high and they thought is was meningitis. I was so scared. It turned out to be pretty severe pneumonia but it was silent so no one had picked up on it. I didn't think I would ever be so relieved to find out my child had pneumonia.

Ds2s allergic reaction to penicillin was really scary too. He came up in the most frightening rash it was huge purple patches all over his body he was only 18 months and no one knew what was causing it.
While in hospital they found that the original ear infection hadn't gone so gave him more penicillin his whole body swelled as did his face. So frightening.