How do I stop worrying about being stabbed/beheaded when I'm

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Beheading for no reason is pretty rare. Some Mexican gangs use that method to send a message, but unless you are involved with a Mexican gang or live down there, then I doubt you are at risk of beheading. Well, unless you are a Highlander immortal, and in that case you would have your own sword .

When I was in my late teens and early 20's I went out alone into some pretty bad places and I was fine because I was always armed. I'd suggest you arm yourself with whatever it is that's legal to carry in your country. I carried a .357 Mag. Try finding a purse to put that thing in or a jacket that covers it without making you look lopsided! I could have gone for a regular ladies .38 but I fell in love with that.357 - it was beautiful. I know you can't carry guns in England though, so that's not an option for you. Is pepper spray legal there? A knife is an option but I would NOT suggest that anyone carry a knife unless they knew what they were doing with it cause it's not as simple as it looks.

Don't put out that "victim vibe" when you are walking around either. Being scared doesn't give it off, how you carry yourself gives it off. Walk like if anybody messes with you they are done for, even if thats not true. That helps. Also, don't put yourself in harms way. Look up that website for "No Nonsense Self Defense" as well.

Oddly enough, years ago when I was way into the Highlander series on TV, I had a sword and carried it in my car. I just liked to carry it though, I knew that nobody was gonna come after me with something like that and also if they did, as much as I would have liked to engage in sword battle with them (learned from a Tang So Do course I took as well) I would have just ran for safety and called the cops cause if somebody is going to try and kill you with a sword, they are nuts. I did once chase someone with it in Bham, but it was an intruder and all I had at the time was a sword in my house.

Carry a small pocket knife with you or learn how to break necks also learn which are weak spots in a human body and all those stuff, I think it will help make you feel safe

Every once in a while you hear of someone being beheaded in a car accident. I remember one case where the car hit a sign which came down through the window and decapitated the driver.

Another self defense trick is to act as crazy as you can if anybody you feel threatened by approaches you. Just scream and wave your arms and blurt out weird phrases, whatever kind of crazy you can think of. Perpetrators will usually back off if they think a potential victim is going to be too much trouble, or crazier than they are.

Also, if anybody ever grabs you, just go dead weight. Hang to the ground. I had a friend who once had someone try and grab her and put her into the back of a car. She did this, and they eventually dropped her and drove off. She wasn't big either, a petite girl- but it's hard to move anybody who is dead weight, and, again, too much trouble.

Well I always manage to accidentally hit my partner in the balls with my knee, so maybe I could use that as a weapon to protect myself if somebody does come up to me in the street and wants to murder, mug or rape me. Apparently it really hurts to be hit in the balls, so that would give me a chance to run away.

But seriously, my anxieties are weird. I worry about being stabbed, but when people start on at me about how secure my money in my bag is, I'm like "oh do mind your own business - won't happen to me!" I am very good with keeping my money safe, and if somebody tried to grab my bag I can run off or react before they can actually get into it. I always take a bag that goes across me, so that it is tucked under my arm, and it is hard to miss somebody creeping up and taking stuff out of my bag.

The only problem with that is my money is so safe in my bag that it's even a pain for me to get to it each time I want to pay for something.

Those do sound like very troubling thoughts, Joe90...and it is good to be very cautious when you're out walking alone, especially at night. But, as the others have said, I think people being beheaded is a somewhat rare occurrence.

However, it might help you feel better if you carried something with you that you could use in self-defense, if you did run into trouble. A small discreet knife could work, as others have suggested, or you could try carrying mace or pepper spray in a plastic cannister that attaches to your keys with a key clip. I don't think you can take it with you on airplanes, though - just to let you know, if you do decide to go that route.

I have a whistle attached to my keys...it's supposed to alert people that one is in trouble and needs help, but I think it can also serve the purpose of catching a potential assailant completely off guard and make him/her leave a person alone.

Another means of self-defense that I've heard about is these keychains:



...they look like ordinary cat keychains, but can be used as handheld weapons if necessary.

Carrying something with you might help relieve your anxiety some. Hope this helps.