When is one time you have felt genuine, 100% fear? (r/AskReddit)

[Music] people have reddit when is one time you have felt genuine 100% fear it was five years ago almost to the day I was home with my two daughters who at the time were three and just over one I was giving them a bath kneeling on the ground and all of a sudden it felt like something exploded in my heart I remember thinking just get the kids out of the water nothing else matters I got them out of the water and was able to call an ambulance I was taken to the hospital and long story short I had blood clots in both lungs and my right knee they think a piece of the knee blood clot broke free and passed through my heart I am very lucky to be alive and so grateful I was able to get my daughters out of the tub I found out I have multiple blood clotting disorders and him on blood thinners for life but I am Alive this was a combination of fear and shock but two years ago my now wife's landlord / roommate committed suicide the day before he did he texted me asking if I could come by after work to feed his cats he said he would be leaving and wouldn't be back in time to feed them it was a brutal thirteen hour day I came home first grabbed my wife then GF who was at my apartment to come with me so we could feed his cats and then go grab a late dinner when we arrived we opened the front door which led directly to the stairs townhome type set up garage first floor main living area on the second on the stairs there was an envelope addressed to me and the note inside was pretty much face value my wife and I were joking and in high spirits on the way over there and she really needed to pee so she was a few steps in front of me as I was reading the note which seemed like a fantasy this is where my reality turned into a haze the second sentence was there's no mess but I have killed myself and I'm upstairs in my bedroom with the door closed as soon as I read this I very sternly told my wife get down here right now and wait outside I made the short trek up the stairs glanced to my right and saw his bedroom door closed this is where my fear was at its peak hoping this was just a fucked-up hallucination but when I reached for the doorknob and opened I couldn't believe what I was seeing he had a large medical sized tank of nitrous that he had rigged up to a suicide bag Google if you must that he placed over his head and secured with a band around his throat his whole head was so purple in blue I could feel myself about to puke and I kind of tripped going back down the stairs and outside I took my phone out without saying anything to my girlfriend and she only found out when I told the 9-1-1 dispatcher that my girlfriend's roommate had committed suicide after somewhat composing myself and heating the dispatchers advice I ran back upstairs and removed the bag and began giving CPR but I only made it like 10 pumps because fluids began coming out his mouth and his eyes rolled open and they were just glosses over in lifeless and gone the paramedics said he was gone for a while and there wasn't anything more I could have done but I still wonder had I not gone downstairs first after discovering him to make the call and if I would have taken that [ __ ] plastic bag off immediately he might have had a chance but there you have it my most fearful event to anyone reading this is the first I've ever written about this and getting it out was very cathartic suicide is [ __ ] please reach out if you are struggling life is amazing and the friends and family you leave behind are scarred forever a few years back I was in a toxic relationship with an individual suffering from several mental illness he refused to take medications I had not a clue how bad it had gotten until he was driving us back to our apartment he started rambling about how God chose him to save my soul and I was a fallen angel he would send me back to heaven he floored the gas on a short dead-end road and almost drove into a cement wall I remember briefly wondering if I should jump put the car at 50 miles per hour or stay in and pray the airbag saved me he slammed the brake last minute as I was about to open the door and jump absolute fear I ended up hospitalized a few days later due to other shitty relationship related events and never saw him again hands down one of the more terrifying moments of my life but not the only one I experienced by being with him my wife and son were out of town so I had the house to myself I used that opportunity to do something I never get to do have a shower with the washroom door open small things like that make me happy anyway I was just getting out of the shower when without a sound I see someone's head slowly go by in the corridor outside the washroom door I nearly shat myself in terror the doors were all locked how did anyone get in and there was something unnatural and menacing about that slow silent glide by the door like they must have known I was there but they just didn't care Plus whoever it was was really tall the head was seven feet off the ground my heart raced so fast I thought I was going to have a heart attack wet and terrified I peered out of the door to find the mystery solved the head was my son's helium balloon toy partly deflated over time floating by on the slight air current in short I had nearly been frightened to death by my kids toy not my proudest moment I used to measure roofs for a solar company one time I went up on a very steep roof of a two-story house alone and without a harness this roof plane was too steep to walk in the shingles were old and crumbing so I had to crawl so I didn't slide down towards the edge after about an hour of crawling around the Sun began to bake the shingles so they were too hot to touch so I decided to bug out as the roof was too steep to walk the only way to the ladder was by scooting on my butt with my feet pointed towards the edge every time I'd skid toward the edge my heart exploded in fear because it was hard to stop from moving I had to use my hands to slow myself down and they were getting burned all I could do was to rub my palms on my legs to transfer some of the heat but they were being scorched imagine putting your hand on a hot frying pan full of grit I was completely alone in a faraway town with no one to call it took forever to get to the ladder and by the time I did I was shaking and drenched in sweat when I finally got back to the ground some people came out from a nearby house and said they saw me and were ready to call 9-1-1 I had burn blisters on both palms and I never went on a roof like that again without a helper or PPE I have posted this before but anyway buckle up it's a long one we used to go sailing in the beady eyes for summer holidays when I was younger one evening we were anchored in a bay with a party boat of teenage Americans nearby after some alcohol starting a water fight seemed like a great idea at some point during the ensuing chaos I ended up kidnapped and held as a hostage on their tender little motorboat for getting from sailboat to shore they decided to drive me out to sea and once we were thoroughly out of the bay they started joking about tossing me overboard drunk me is not smart drunk me thought the best response to this joke threat was to stand up and yell you can't throw me overboard if I jump out which I promptly did they laughed and drove off I was left floating in the middle of the sea about half a mile from shore in the pitch-black at first the alcohol stopped me from panicking and I decided to just swim back half a mile isn't that bad right now my brain was beginning to wonder what was swimming around beneath me but I was mostly calm until something bounced off my leg this is the point at which I need to introduce you to the villain of this story you see usually the beady eyes has lovely safe clear waters however once every four to five years they get unusually high numbers of moon jellyfish of course Moon's aren't scary at all they rarely sting and when they do it's not even as painful as a nettle sting they really weren't the problem it was the creature that used them as a food source that was the danger known colloquially as the stinging cauliflower they were purple balls of pure evil in our marine life books they were the only jellyfish that got the same danger slash pain rating as the Man O'War jellyfish earlier that holiday a young girl from another boat got stung while playing on the beach we heard her scream from about a quarter of a mile out to bait anchor she went into anaphylactic shock and almost died Side Story the vinegar and talcum powder we had stopped for jellyfish stings apparently saved her life according to the emergency responders because we zoomed it over when we heard the Mayday on the radio anyway back to my story there I was half a mile out from shore in the pitch black with no idea if these kids were going to come back and get me or if they would even be able to find me again in the dark since I had no idea if I was drifting with any current a moon jellyfish had just bounced off my leg and where there are moons there were always kala flowers I was pretty certain if I swam into one and got stung chances are I wouldn't be able to stay afloat at I would drown I start to feel genuinely sick and scared struggle to keep my breathing under control etc but there's nothing to do except swim and hope to high heaven I don't hit one so that's what I did it was over 15 minutes before the [ __ ] heads came back to get me by this point the panic and swimming had turned my muscles to jelly and they had to literally haul me back into the boat I never told my family or friends on the holiday didn't want to ruin their fun I just quietly told folks I was tired and went to bed to this day I can still taste the salt in my mouth and feel my heart rate and breathing increase when I tell that story TL DR I am a stupid drunk and jumped in jellyfish infested water in the middle of the night and got left there and tried to swim back am lucky I'm not dead my first time doing truffles we were in our hotel room plus another friend who was in Amsterdam with us at the time for a total of three guys I was just hanging out being a jolly idiot in the bathroom looking at the tiles walked back into the bedroom and friend one is in a fetal position staring at our wide open window we're on the top floor so pretty high up I can't see friend to anywhere so I asked after him only to get a thousand-yard stare in the answer he went out I say that I didn't hear the door when I was in the bathroom he didn't go out the door says friend 1 so I sidled my way over to the window and can't see anything I'm absolutely freaking out all the thoughts about what we're going to have tell his family what do we do etc etc I sit down on the bed next to friend 1 and just felt cold then friend who just slumps out of where he was being an idiot curled up in the Wardrobe of the room I don't think I've ever cried in relief before that or since I was sitting in the waiting room of the ICU talking to my aunt my dad has just been moved from the ER to the ICU that morning my mom was with him but I had to go to the waiting room while they got him settled in all of a sudden I hear Code Blue ICU room XYZ I didn't even know what his room was but I just had this terrible feeling my entire body goes numb I look at my aunt and say I'm going back there as soon as I opened the ICU ward or a nurse looks at me and says are you the daughter of so-and-so with a very empathetic look on her face and I say yes OMG is that my dad is that my dad coding she says come with me we sprint down the hall to the back of the ICU and I turn the corner to see a roomful of people my mom is standing in the corner in complete shock my 100% genuine fear standing in the corner of the ER watching nurses perform CPR on my dad for 17 minutes CPR is nothing like you see on TV any medical professional will agree with me it is violent and intense there were about 15 people in the room and it is intense organized chaos it is one of the worst memories I have been talking about it somewhat helps I miss you dad hemorrhaging after giving birth to my second child my epidural finally wore off and I was being escorted to the restroom when I sat up in bed I felt a huge gush of fluid and thought Oh probably just peed since my bladder is still a little numb got to the restroom pull down the mesh Underpants and blood dumped on the floor when I sat on the toilet a massive flood of fist sized or larger blood clots and blood left my body I immediately felt faint and my nurse could tell she looked at the mess and called for the hemorrhage response team to the room I will never forget the look of dread on my husband's face when I left that bathroom with blood running down my legs the helplessness I felt lying on that bed with my newborn in sight his father holding my hand for dear life and dozens of nurses rushing to get different medications to inject me with while a doctor scooped clots out of my body with his hands and a nurse pushed on my stomach is something I'll never forget nor will I forget how heavy my chest felt with every breath how dumb everything appeared or how hard it was to think I never had a fear of blood and now it paralyzes me I got alcohol poisoning and it didn't hit till I was on a train I had gone to the Train bathroom to throw up but I was dry heaving and I didn't have water and I could feel myself starting to black out I was so [ __ ] up I couldn't even see straight enough to figure out how to open the door and I started to think oh my god I'm going to die in a train bathroom with my skirt hiked up they're going to take pictures of this oh my god people are going to see me like this it was the most afraid for my life I've ever been not because I was going to die but because I was going to die alone in a train bathroom because I was too stupid to stop doing shots as I started to see spots someone grabbed me by the hair forced a water bottle between my lips and was like swallow and I did and I puked and I did again and I puked and he got another bottle and did the same and we went like that until I held down a few sips and blood started flowing to my head again he got off at my stop and walked me home waited while I threw up a couple times and made sure my boyfriend was there to take care of me when I got home the whole time he was just bitching at me just a non-stop flow of do you understand how much of a burden you've put on other people I am going to be three hours late getting home because I missed my stop making sure you were alright this is irresponsible you need to take better care of yourself learn your limits and for [ __ ] sake if you're not going to do that at least wear pants just non-stop he was right on all counts of course that's what I love about Boston people are [ __ ] all of them but they're [ __ ] that look out for one another edit this is getting intense Thank You cons strangers for gilding my story about a con stranger I got angry twice which is a painful virus in Southeast Asia there are only four strands of dengue and if you survive one you were immune to that one for life I survived the first one and was in my bed for two weeks I felt paralyzed I couldn't do anything using any technology gave me a headache I recovered completely fine and then a few months go by and I caught anggee twice if you don't know catching it multiple times is a lot more dangerous I had internal bleeding in my life was a misery I was genuinely fearing I obviously recovered really well actually better than most people this time it took a month to recover I ended up having vein issues in my left kidney and testicle but I had to get surgery to cut those veins and basically force my body to use other passages if you catch it get medical help and you will have a pretty good chance at recovery however the fever spikes you get from it or something different if you are an active person it will take ages to get back into sports excuse the lengthy paragraph that's going to follow I'll try and make it as short as possible I was going to enter year eleven that year so I was about 15 years old I needed to walk to school to register and decided I'd take a shortcut that Street was long with trees on each side and nobody around but when I realized my mistake I was already half way through it so I figured I'd continue on my way at some point I heard footsteps behind me and turned around there was a man who had something weird about his demeanor and I remember immediately feeling it so I gradually picked up the pace but he just bolted and got to me knife in hand asked me to give him my phone which I should have done that was my first phone and as a stupid teenager with no money I sort of thought it would be a good idea to negotiate so he doesn't take my phone dumb idea cause he asked me to follow him while still pressing the knife against my back acting like he was just casually holding me now I lived in a small town at the time so I had to walk ten minutes like that before finding a police officer to alert started screaming crying until people eventually surrounded the guy and dragged me out of there I was informed by a police officer that the man was actually a rapist who had escaped prison months ago felt lucky to have escaped that one I go back eight years ago to me being very pregnant 37 weeks and getting a phone call from my dad at like 7 a.m. my mother is diabetic and wears a pump she had been sick we thought it was a stomach bug or maybe even the flu apparently during the night she woke up and was throwing up and somehow aspirated in her lungs about an hour later she woke my dad up and said something wasn't right he in turn woke my brother up immediately who carried her down the stairs and put her in the car and drove to the ER they immediately realized she was going into DKA and also couldn't breathe on her own so they intubated her it was a small Hospital and they decided to MedFlight her to a bigger more capable one I have never been so scared in my life about to give birth to her first grandchild and could lose my mother how was I ever going to be okay again it was a very rough couple of weeks but she did pull through and was by my side when I gave birth she is my best friend in this world someone who always has my back losing my parents is one of the scariest things to me [Music]

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Published: Fri Nov 15 2019