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.

Mine was at the dentist's. I now have a real phobia about ever going again.

When I was 10 I was in bed with my mum and my nephew (he was 2). I didn’t realise my mum had been drinking for a few year prior to this. But she turned round and told me she had taken an overdose and she will be dead in the morning and I won’t have a mum. She told me not to scream. But I did. I was terrified. My sister came running in and all I can remember after that is visiting her in hospital.

She tried to commit suicide a lot more after that. Mostly when I was a teenager and home alone with her.

My mum calling me to tell me that my teenage sister had taken an overdose. She said straight after that she was responsive on her way to hospital but my entire body shut down when she said overdose so I didn't hear any of it. I thought she was dead.

I had an allergic reaction to a medication & lost the ability to move or talk although I could still hear & understand what was being said. I was put in an induced coma to give my brain a chance to recover. Before the coma, I'd heard the neurologists discuss the options & outcomes of my situation with my parents but obviously although I understood what they were saying, nobody was aware that I could hear and understand them.
I was so scared of being stuck in locked-in syndrome.

I was going to say being in a coach crash with 50 primary aged children in the French Alps during a snowstorm but after reading some of these I realise it wasn't that traumatic.
I also witnessed plenty of violence from my father towards my DM, I almost became used to it. Fortunately I've never had an abusive relationship but knew I would never tolerate a man laying a finger on me.

Mine's not as bad as some of these, but choking on a pea stuck in my airway. I recall coughing and feeling it come up, then it going back down when I managed to catch a breath. My ex timed a hard slap to my back when I was coughing it up and the pea shot out across the room. Was very scary to me.

Another one, we were driving back from somewhere, dual carriageway, seriously bad rain and large puddles on the road. Ex was in a mood and driving too fast. At one point, we went through a large puddle and the screen was covered in water for 2-3 seconds at least. Which, when the car is going at 100mph, is pretty scary when you can't see the road. We had our DC in the car and I know DD clocked the speed and was also scared. But he was always a twat about his "driving skills" and acted like it was nothing to worry about. He's not as competent as he thinks he is.

Being rushed into theatre for crash caesarean as the midwife noticed prolapsed cord I had a GA. When I came round I thought DS1 had died, but he was in NICU

Being induced in hospital with my son then suffering a massive bleed due to a placenta abruption
Losing a lot of blood being rushed to theatre for an emergency c section
And I was all on my own during it all because my mum and sister had been told to go home as nothing was "happening" up until that point

DD having a fit. My epidural wearing off mid c-section. Finding DH dead in our bedroom and desperately trying to use the defib and do CPR but knowing it was futile. Have flashbacks of all three but the last one is by far the worst.

Calling an ambulance when my DS was about 8 months old and started really struggling to breathe. He went down hill in front of my eyes so quickly I was utterly terrified. He got blue lighted straight to resus and I'm eternally grateful for the amazing doctors who helped him.

@AnyFucker Yes know how.that felt!! I also had an abortion without pain med and wanted to die!!! (Medical reason for abortion unfortunately)

20(ish) wks pregnant with b/g twins. Went for one of the bigger, routine scans. I knew it was supposed to take a while, but not quite that long... The sonography spent a Looooooooong time going over a couple of areas and flipping me over and over like a performing whale, but she was absolutely lovely. I’d already become reasonably familiar with her by that stage. (We have more scans here in Aus, and multiples get more again...) So.... I spent ages in the waiting room prior to getting the news from the doctor that everything was fine.... just fine. Absolutely fine, but it would be a good idea for girl twin to have a kidney ultrasound when she’s born, just in case. He’s a very experienced doctor and has seen it all before and it’s all normal, so he wasn’t even putting it in her report!!!! (Wtf!!!) I asked him to and he refused.
Sonographer met me in the car park to explain that she was also very experienced, could be fired for meeting me, had had a big argument with him about the report (!) and that she genuinely didn’t know what she was seeing with the kidney but it wasn’t normal!!! Small country town, nobody would refer me elsewhere. I had to wait until babies were born, I had their paediatrician trying to diagnose ME with PND until my baby went yellow and her kidney enzymes went crazy within 24 hours of birth. Turns out she has a rare genetic deformity that is easily recognised by looking at her and her father’s ears (?) but they were being too fucking intent on making this MY issue, and protecting the dickhead doctor!

to you on this thread. Pretty much all of it is worse than mine.

Watching Mother slash a curtain to spreads with a carving knife. I was 11. Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday, Steve.

Being raped and sexually assaulted.

DP have a severe hypoglycaemic seizure. Just my lack of knowledge and how to treat - something that's mechanical for me now.

Being terrified of myself, ruled by my fears, fears of not being good enough, of never being good enough of anything. My life is chronicled around it, of avoiding opportunities. Mental health is terrifying.

@southern82

Been on a ride at a theme park when I was 17 and as it went upside down and was held there, my bar across my knees moved and I started falling out. I had a bar above me that I had to hold onto. I honestly thought I was going to die.

I've a good idea who you are. Or a massive coincidence. Alton Towers, the ride being Nemesis?

Zip lining. Literally shaking with fear.

DS throwing himself in a swimming pool, aged 18 months.

DD hurtling hell for leather towards a blind quay with a 20 ft drop into the ocean.

Some of these are awful 💐

I'm alright, life is better now. I have flashbacks, and I seem to be triggered by what DD is up to at school. Photo day for example, everyone knows they're hit or miss but you tell your DC they look gorgeous and buy a tiny one and get another nicer one for the wall. Not my mother she used to scream at me.
It strikes me from this thread, flashbacks, normalisation and fear of not being good enough. They all stem from trauma. I'm sorry to everyone who has had trauma. We're still here. Just. That must be something.

I want to know what Kit Whitby's brother was called! What a great name for a cat.

@StormyInTheNorth, sorry to hear what you went through. Some people do not deserve to have children. Sounds like your mother was one of them. I hope you have a happy filled life and move on from what she did.

Getting robbed at gunpoint in Nigeria.

Discovering my non-verbal, learning disabled son had managed to open a window and was nowhere in sight when he was seven. 10 minutes of absolute horror before we found him around the block with no shoes in someone's front garden.

The very first time my step dad came into my room at night and laid on top of me. I was 7. I was numb after. Funnily enough, I wasn't scared each time after when I knew what was going to happen. Purely because my mum was in her room and I knew he wouldn't kill me. Otherwise, she would have stopped him.

Wondering1215

That is awful. I'm so sorry.

@DillonPanthersTexas no need to apologise! I'm only now working out how to come to terms with it. I find posting on threads like these somehow relieving.

Not the scariest thing that's happened to me but one less so was when I had just left the garage to have the car checked over and they didn't shut the bonnet properly. It flew up and smashed into the windscreen while I was driving along at 50mph, completely obscuring all vision. I almost hit another car head on but luckily remembered the curve of the road and where the car was and sort of guessed it correctly so the only damage was the buckled bonnet and windscreen.