Scariest thing you've ever experienced

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When watching a horror with my teenage son this evening, DS asked what the scariest thing I'd ever witnessed was and I simply couldn't think what my answer would be. I'm intrigued to know what other people's answers would be, I find it so intriguing

24 hours into labour. Given an epidural which it turns out I am allergic to.

My BP and heart rate fell off a cliff. They couldn't find DD's heartbeat at all. 5 mins later she was delivered by csection.

Not as obviously traumatic as some of PP's experiences, but I remember the moment I thought "she's gone" (she wasn't gone, thank the Lord for the NHS).

Anaphylaxis. I could feel my body shutting down and it felt like the world was slipping further away down a tunnel and I thought I was certainly going to die. I am so very grateful to the London Ambulance team. Not sure the friend I was with will ever get over the trauma.

After surgery. I am pretty sure I may have died on the table and no-one told me. At the time my DC's were roughly 3 and 7. I had an odd sensation on waking A LOT of time had passed, and I had seen/been somewhere I shouldn't although I couldn't remember.

What was distinct was my DC'S were much, much older (I knew I had just seen them as adults but couldn't piece it together). When I was more lucid, I couldn't shake the feeling I had been gone many, many years and has somehow seen my family grow. The fact my Dc's were still so small was very confusing.

Didn't tell my family any of this because they would have thought it was the anesthesia. It may well have been, but was very unsettling.

To add, it was the moment the midwife went white, and calmly said "I'm just going to get a second opinion" as she pressed a bloody huge red button on the wall.

Watching someone choke to death.

Scariest thing I've ever witnessed (as opposed to worst thing that's ever happened) it's a toss up between a car accident I was in - could see the oncoming car, it was all in slow motion. Head on collision, car rolled over & over (like being in a washing machine) and ending up in a ditch, suspended by the seatbelt that I couldn't undo & thought my DP had died. Weirdly we knew the people in the other car & I was scared they might be dead too. (Very luckily no one died, but there were some injuries).

OR

The night that nothing actually happened 🤣 but I thought there was someone in our bedroom (in the middle of the night) when we were in a holiday home. I had thought he had me pinned down on the bed. The whole episode was very very strange & I was very scared. Still not 100% sure there wasn't someone there.

I think they were the scariest things, but nowhere near a patch on some posted 🌷

Some of these are truly terrifying (((HUGS)))

Psychosis

Childbirth for me too.Fuck that.Never again!

Approaching a toll booth at 70mph in a Chinese taxi parallel to another car with the same intentions... I shut my eyes and prayed very hard.
The other driver gave way at the last moment and we went screeching into the both without incident.

The tape was soothingly playing Scarbouough Fair.

DS1's birth was hairy too.

Watching my child die.

Waiting for the cry during my c section. Rainbow baby after 3 miscarriages and reduced movements that morning. Sweetest sound I’ve ever heard.

The following 5 days where he developed a different medical issue every day and I was convinced I would be going home without him. He’s fine now and I try not to think too much about the shaky start.

Being attacked by a cab driver. When I tried to get out of the car he started dragging me along the road while he was driving. He was holding on to the sleeve of my coat. I managed to unzip the coat and ran as fast as I could. I was 16.

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Watching my child die.

that is the scariest thing ever. I hope you are doing bit better now.

One of my brother's first pyschotic episodes when i was a child. He was very paranoid and delusional and i was on my own with him, he had a knife and he had forced everyone else out of the room, but wouldn't let me go. He was telling me that everyone in our lives had been replaced by replicants and they were very dangerous. Eventually the police arrived and took him to hospital. I have never told anyone that before, in fact i had pretty much forgotten it until i opened this thread.

I have a few.

Aged 8 or 9 I'd been allowed to watch something on TV, it might have been a Stephen King story, but the episode ended with a child in mid air scratching the window from outside.

I was woken up by the sound of scratching on the window. I sat up in the dark and tried to think what to do, eventually I moved the curtain back - the cat had been locked out and manged to get to my window sil.

the second I was about 17, I'd been off VI form for a day with belly ache. My mum had gone for an afternoon nap as she often did and I tried to get out of the chair and found myself on all fours with right sided pain like I had never felt before.

I tried calling my mum but she didn't wake up.

Eventually she came down and I asked her to call the Dr. She told me to take paracetamol and go to bed. I said I can't get to bed I need a Dr.

My brother came home from work and went out and then my dad came home about 6.30ish.

It's the one time my dad has ever gone against my mum's wishes, he called the Dr.

The Dr came out, took a look at me and called an ambulance before examining me.

The ambulance crew arrived and made a couple of jokes about me looking green, I had jaundice.

To cut a long story short it was my gall bladder, but I thought I was going to die because my mum wouldn't call a Dr.

Third one.

I was in the outside lane of the M1, my accelerator cable snapped. I managed to get t the hard shoulder by sheer luck and tot he tune of several HGV's horns.

A good number of these responses have had me in tears this morning. Big hugs to so many of you. I'm so sorry to hear that you've been through these traumatic experiences.

@sashh Was the film you were watching Salems Lot?

When my dd had her first asthma attack aged 18 months. She had seen an OOH doctor who said I was a nervous first time mum and that she was totally fine and sent us home. I wasn't happy and rang back the out of hours service. The nurse i spoke to could hear dd struggling to breathe and said 'hang up, i'm calling an ambulance'.
The ambulance arrived very quickly and dd was put straight on oxygen and blue lighted to hospital. It was completely terrifying. She was turning blue.

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I think it might have been, it rings a bell.

@MJMG2015 that sound like sleep paralysis. I get it quite often and it's SO scary. Mine I'm always on my front and it feels like someone is holding me in place and I can hear someone running around my house. It's awful, but only ever get it when I'm on my own and DH has gone to work super early.

two for me

first watching my twin sister get hit by a bus, I honestly thought she was going to die. She is fine but it was very scary

My older sisters increasing descent into alcoholism. She would disappear regularly and each time I was convinced she would be found dead. It was horrendous. She eventually got help and has been sober for over 9 years now but that will never leave me

My exh holding a shotgun in my face because I wanted to see my parents on Christmas Day

Waking up to 2 men trying to break into my flat the one night my partner was away watching the rugby. It was the first time he'd gone away since we'd moved to London and I couldn't shake the feeling they knew this. But police said it was unlikely.

A client loosing consciousness suddenly and having some kind of seizure when I was a project worker and waiting with her to go to an appointment. Her going from normal to very unwell so quickly was shocking.

Being stuck in an old lift. Not for long but it's given me serious claustrophobia which continues to have an effect on my life.

A car crashed outside my house and then exploded and caught fire. It woke me up and I didn't know if the people were trapped. They got out but that moment of going down the stairs I distinctly remember thinking they could be inside and if they were it would be horrific.