What could you NOT do, even if your life depended on it?

[QueenOfOversharing]

LIGHTHEARTED

After commenting on another thread that my worst nightmare would be to have to dive underwater & resurface somewhere else. You always see it in films & they look like they’ll run out of air. Or they do it on Bushtucker Trials.

I can’t even watch it on tv / a film - gives me such anxiety. It is related to a PTSD issue, so that makes it maybe a bit more understandable, but I’m not sure I could do it, even if my life depended on it. Obviously, I’d have to try... 😬

What, if anything, would you struggle with?

There are many things I thought I couldn't do but it turns out I can.
I know this is supposed to be light hearted but I don't want my kids to feed off of any anxiety I have about stuff so I make myself.
Things including heights, flying, bugs and animals. Done.
I scuba dived even though I was terrified.
As a pp said, it's amazing what you can do once adrenaline kicks in.
I'd struggle to eat a slug though 🤣🤣

Eat anything derived from an animal,or wear it,or clean with it...

Shake Donald Trumps hand

@peaceanddove that's the spirit 😉

I forced myself to not show my terror at spiders when my DS was younger for exactly the same reasons. Plus, I figured if I ensured he was confident with them he could deal with them. It only bloody worked! My neighbour knocked the other night to ask DS to get a huge spider out of the front hallway. She was hysterical.

It was a leaf.

Breathe if I was gagged - struggle to breathe through my nose for any length of time

Anything involving confined spaces, sharks or spiders.

My nightmare would be choosing which way to go if it was a shark infested lagoon one way or a spider filled narrow cave.

Swim with sharks. Cage diving. Anything in the sea. Sharks. Jaws. No

I'm with you on the cage diving, I'm just reading a book where a guy was doing this with no scuba gear and a great white bit the buoys on the cage so it started to sink. The guy had to choose between drowning and taking his chance with the shark.

Terrible insomnia, so of course I'm thinking of more.

Be in a room with someone flossing their teeth.

People who floss their teeth openly - mark of a psychopath. Not open to debate.

I read this and went away for a couple of days to think. I then attempted to cook dinner (DH normally cooks) and I realised my thing is touching raw meat. I had to wrap bacon around chicken breast and could not touch the meat. It makes me gag and the idea of the cold, slimy feeling on my fingers is gross. I had to use a knife and fork. It's like a bush tucker trial. Move aside eating locust just a chicken fillet makes me squirm. However I am very much a carnivore and could not give up eating meat, just can't touch the raw stuff!

@Savvyblonde I buy boxes of disposable gloves - I refuse to touch chicken (but I'm ok with other meats). I will pack some for the apocalypse - next to the Femfresh.

Swim in the sea or any form of open water.

No way.

The Baby Shark abs challenge. DDs (10 and 6) can both ace it. But six years after giving birth and DD suffering a shoulder dystocia, I still have issues with SPD.

I didn’t realise I had so many till I read this thread!

All the potholing/caving ones

Parachuting/abseiling/paragliding

Swimming across a crocodile infested creek or being in a shark infested ocean

Eating live insects

And then there’s the true survival stories...,those people who crashed up in the Alps and ate the dead people to survive. I’d starve to death first.

And that man (124 hours) who got jammed between rocks and had to cut his own arm off. That story still haunts me.

Sorry that’s not so light hearted, so back to not true movies... Sandra Bullock in Bird Box. All that walking, driving and boating with a blindfold on? The thought of that terrifies me!

Swim in water with fish in it.
Touch/lift a fish that is flipping around.
Bought DH a trout for dinner and had to stick a knife in it to hold it under the tap to wash.
Ride a rollercoaster. I screamed/cried my way round a kids rollercoaster coaster. Genuinely had a panic attack.

Shag Dominic Cummings

Put together flat pack furniture

Skiing or really anything that involves potentially losing my balance
Being in a confined space with birds (bats okay even though bat piss smells horrific)
Being in water with any kind of ocean creature especially ones of a size that could go up my nose or in my mouth without me realising. Or with me realising. I can't decide which is worse.

I think I could push through most fears if death was imminent although for half dead flapping birds, touching small animals and disposal of gold fish, it would have to be a particularly grisly and painful death.

Physically, I could not click my fingers, shout loud enough to be heard across a table in a noisy bar, or run further than about a 100m

I also couldn’t dig my own grave. I’ve often considered this scenario while gardening.

Lick sick.

Go back into an underground tornado shelter. Visited friends in Missouri when a tornado outbreak occurred. You go tiny stairs into the ground and close the cover above you. I never experienced claustrophobia like it before. There were spider webs and I could feel the walls closing around me.

Snakes are a no go! Uh and feels uh at the thought. Be pleasant to Trump, Boris, Farage and the lot involved in Brexit. Growls

Last but not least the ex from hell. I never want to be in the same room with him let alone anything else again. Fortunately I will never have to be as he is else where in the world and mine have nothing to do with him.

Mines not lighthearted

I guess if your life depends on it, you’d do it, right? What if your child’s life depended on it - you’d definitely try to do it.
I don’t think I could ever kill or hurt a dog in an extreme situation. I must have been one in a previous life.

The thing that a PP thought was geocaching is called coasteering. DP is an outdoor activity provider and he regularly takes people scrambling across cliffs and jumping into the sea, only to scramble up more cliffs and jump back in to the sea. He also takes people sea kayaking.

I fucking hate the sea. Terrified of it. Most bodies of water to be fair, even though we live with one of the deepest lakes in wales on our doorstep

Coasteering is something that fills me with horror and I refuse to even entertain the idea of doing it.

Touch spiders. Even typing the word and making the emoji come up on my phone makes me shiver.

Give Birth!! I don't like Children.

Go in an mri scanner again. Total claustrophobia