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.

Watching my very poorly 13 month old having lumbar puncture and being told he would scream and cry with pain, he didn't. He made no noise. The lack of pain scared me and made me realise how very ill he was.

@Cheeseandlobster that's horrible too . I've found myself less and less able to explain away her behaviour since I've had my own children. The thought of either of mine looking at me with genuine fear in their eyes, it turns my stomach. She revelled in it.

sadpapercourtesan

My mother used to lose it too. We called them her "wobblers" but i now realise they were panic attacks because I get them. Every family event and social occasion I can remember as a kid ended with my mother in a wobbler screaming and crying and everyone else buzzing around her. She revelled in having the attention of doctors, nurses and family members. When she had to go into hospital she would sit down by the phone and ring every member of the family, going right down a list. I had moved to another city by then and was often away abroad on work projects. She would get more and more desperate and irate when she could not reach me as there were no mobiles back then. She would take it out on the family who were still at home with her. Then they would try to ring me. I would return from a work trip to find 30 messages on my ansaphone. In the end I simply disengaged it when I went away. I think she probably had Munchausens . Parents like this do notrealise they are being abusive.