I really would like some advice with this. I'd dearly like to learn to swim for health benefits and as a life saving skill. The problem is that I'm terrfied of drowning. I'm not scared of being in the water. But I feel and almost believe I will drown. I do go sometimes and just hold onto the railings and flap the legs around. I took swimming lessons and found the instructor useless. And I feel it must be me. Everyone who was a beginner managed few laps by the end of the first lesson. But i hadn't managed that even by the end of 12 lessons.
Any advice, anyone? Or encouraging stories? Or do I accept I will never learn?