What was your most terrifying experience?

[Mixedupworld]

For me it was being winched up into helicopter after I fell and injured myself.

Followed closely by me and a friend aged 12 getting cut off by the tide and having to be rescued by RNLI. We didnt have phones so had to scream for help and were eventually heard. It was pitch black.

Handing my anaesthetised 4 month old baby over for him to have surgery, being in a car accident on the motorway at high speed, being a tiny child in a house with parents who were frequently violent towards each other.

Being held up at gun point whilst working at a Post Office. Ducked down and hit the panic alarm and the guy ran off. I was shaking like a leaf, one colleague was so traumatised they took her to hospital to check her out. Just about calmed down an hour later and convinced myself that it was an imitation firearm when the Police with us got a message to say the same guy had shot a sub postmaster a couple of miles away.

Domestic violence when I was a small child

Finding my brother trying to commit suicide.

Domestic violence as a child/teen. I sometimes re-read my diary entries from the time. Hiding under a car thinking my mum was dead was one of the most awful experiences of my life.

Fire in our plane, resulting in dumping of fuel and an emergency landing at a military air base in Brindisi.

Emergency landing at Gatwick when plane was hit by lightening and lost cabin pressure, landing in thick fog.

But I still fly....

Being at a pool party agreed about 9 and a very very large floating platform with slide and obstacles was the main entertainment. It wasn't anchored into one spot. I went down the slide, fell off the platform and came up under the middle of it, I was swimming but I didn't realise straight away it was floating in the same direction so I wasn't getting any closer to air despite swimming, so after a dunking without taking a breath, I was like a seal trapped under ice, I swam for what felt like ages before I managed to swim out from under it, no one saw. I was so close to panic and my lungs were bursting to take a huge lung full of water when I managed to come up. If I had not been so used to swimming under water as I was, I don't think I'd have been able to control the urge to take a breath, or to push the panic away... I think I'd have drowned before anyone noticed I was in difficulty.

Loosing my (then) 2 year old DD in the ELC at Ealing Broadway shopping center. 3 minutes of utter terror.

Losing.

Getting the phone call from the police after DDs accident. Feel sick just thinking about it.

Being marooned in a very strange town on the very tip of New Zealand's south island around 20 years ago. I was on my own and ended up being put up in a pub. It was full of leering old men who stopped and starred at me as I walked in. My room had no lock, the landlord was called 'Goober' and spoke gibberish whilst dragging one leg behind him. I slept not a wink the entire night convinced I was going to be murdered in my bed!

My people. 😂

I divorced my own "Goober", with whom I share a small child I must hand over for unsupervised contact. That, is terror, and little else remotely scares me anymore.

I stupidly jumped into the sea in a pretty cove when I was in my early 20s, trying to swim with some sea lions (I know, not sure what I was thinking). I completely underestimated the strength of the current and was just slammed helplessly against the rocks several times. Luckily there were a couple of surfers nearby who hauled me out of the water and I was unhurt. I was so lucky the were around, I never would have been able to get out by myself and hate to think what would have happened.

The same year I went for a hike in the woods in Ontario with my cousin, we set off in the morning planning to be out for an hour, managed to wander off the track and got completely lost, with no food, water or torches. We were pretty terrified when the sun went down and we were still lost, knowing there were likely to bears around. Somehow we stumbled upon the car at around 1am.

Safe to say I am a lot less reckless now

Actually just thought of a worse one. Following the ambulance that was transferring DD to another hospital for specialist treatment. Suddenly the blue lights went on and they shot off into the distance. I swear I aged 20 years in 20 seconds.

DS choking. He was only 18 months and it seemed to go on for ages when it really was only a seconds but i have never been so scared. I was shaking for hours later.

My daughter being horribly horribly ill, days of misdiagnosis and overwhelming worry culminating in a burst appendix with multiple complications. Followed by an abdominal absess and and a 12 week recovery. Just heart wrenchingly awful. Quite a lot less awful but hugely traumatic was a drive home in a blizzard, skidding across junctions, no idea where the road was just bloody terrifying!!!!

Being the first car not involved and witnessing a multi motorbike crash. I was in the passenger seat and I genuinely remember watching massive motor bikes flip end over end. And then my mum, being my mum, jumped out of the car and ran into this pile of debris and injured people while I called for an ambulance. I have never fought the fight or flight response more in my life. I remember holdin one of the riders heads and trying to keep him still and telling him it was all going to be ok. It still gives me flashbacks now and it was over ten years ago.

Getting shot at by a sniper with rounds ricocheting of a wall beside me.

Yep watching my dd having a seizure in hospital. So traumatic.

Being diagnosed with lung cancer. But the really scary thing was having g to tell my 40 year old DD and my 70+ frail mum.

That was all over ten years ago, but the look on their faces will never ever leave me

AnyFucker

Weren't you given pain relief? That's awful.

Oh and my DS choked on a grape at nursery and the look on the teachers face as I walked towards her when she had to tell me the news of what happened. He survived thank goodness.

Being blown out to sea on a windsurf board when I was 12. Thought I was going to end up on the African continent. Terrifying, kept jumping off to try and swim back to shore pulling my board behind me and hitting cold currents of water. Rescued eventually by a boat when dad looked up from the beach and could not find me..

Being held down and threatened with being cut with broken glass by 4 teenage boys when I was only 10 because of my religion.

Sitting in my Dad’s car outside his work as he nipped in and a bomb went off in the building. Luckily he was unhurt but all my other terrifying experiences involve bombs. Joys of growing up in NI in the 70’s/80’.

It’s a bloody miracle I’ve turned out as well as I have😬😬

Jumping out of a smoking plane via the emergency shoot after a crash landing. Husband had been sent out another exit but I thought he was still trapped inside the plane. Absolutely terrifying.

@Theodoreb

Watching my daughter have a 30 minute seizure while I tried to rush her to hospital then watching as she was completely unresponsive to the numerous doctors and nurses putting canulas in while her heart rate was 140.

Been there. Have never been more terrified. Hope your daughter is ok now. X

I have seen some horrific things through work that have stuck in my mind, one being 2 kids in a crash, one had a seat belt on, the other did not, horrific.