What was the scariest time of your life?

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Mine was when I thought my soul was split and all the pieces would be locked up separately in the cold darkness in separate tiny containers that are made of solid, unbreakable... stuff. That was when I went to a shrink and was prescribed antidepressants.

I can't think of a good answer to this question. My mind really blocks out a lot of stuff.

In high school and then again after collage, I felt absolutly hopeless, I thought their was no way I could possibly ammount to anything, and that never could I function in the world. I knew then I would never achieve what my parents had, I knew the good times in life were over and I would spend the rest of it in poverty, loneliness and desperation.

I started having pretty rough thoughts, that was scary, like... well... and of course i dont talk about this really... but, I thought both times in my life their really was only 1 way out, as soon as that thought creeped into my head I knew it was time so start making changes, so I went to collage to solve the first and the second too longer, i moved out and got a better job luckily, and now I do just fine, tho deep down in side I have an intense desire to always think about how I can change the past, like what i coulda done differently, but then I realize its impossible, this has gone on for a few years, every now and then it gets pretty intense, making me very depressed all day long...

ok... perhapse a simple short answer coulda done, instead i rambled, heh... got stuff on the brain i suppose...

The past long gone is too clouded to give an accurate answer; I can speak of the near present and past gone yesterday however:

Last night was pretty scary for me; I have a massive phobia of that evil object, the phone. I used it to call a friend and partner for the first time. I didn't know it at the time, or perhaps I did but I assumed the worst like I tend to do; the fear was unfounded.

Any time in the presence of my very physically and psychologically abuseive parents and certain other family members.

Riding in a car with a really drunk driver at the wheel who has gone ballistic.

My very first anxiety attack, I think I was 8 years old.I had no idea what it was and thought I was going crazy.

When I was convinced that if I did not get out of a certain place I would be captured, tortured and killed. That's a paranoid delusion for you... Hm.

Ive never really been very afraid in bad situations. So I dunno. Mostly Im scared in nightmares more than real life situations.

Nightmares... Dreams... Real life... No difference really.

My High School years were the scariest time of my life.

That's often how it is for me-things that are further (farther ?) back are mostly less intense. That which I can easily call to mind is what I choose from for possible examples. Hard to compare how things felt at the time vs. now, when "at the time" one's accumulated self was only a fraction of who one's become. Something could happen today that would make me forget my previous fears & pains, my "balance sheet" is always shifting.

Unsure if question was for an acute scary event or a chronic lengthy period ?


In terms of phases in my life that lasted years & years: From 7th grade onwards, school was socially awful, I seemed even more unusual than my peers & unwittingly attracted negative attention. By 10th grade, things improved slightly (in part because my family moved) but I was still an outsider from even the group of outsiders. Finally in college I had a large social life, though it disappeared after I left-haven't met or gotten to know many people since then (and that was 13 yrs. ago).
Also, one can feel threatened on multiple levels, for one's financial, physical, emotional, social, (and so on) survival. One one level, I feel newly terrified every single time I have to go to the dentist, and my previous visits haven't dimmed much, intensity-wise. On another level, I was bereft & afraid when breaking up with my ex-husband: when I was told he was leaving, when I separated his things out into boxes, when he left to go live somewhere else-those months were horrendous. Plenty more I could recall...fear is a large part of my life-past, present, and future.

Should have been when I was a little boy and my stepfather strangled me, I had purple marks around my neck for 10 days, his face was pure evil hate, but not sure if I felt fear or just a sort of resignation that my life was about to end?

Maybe supernatural things are more frightening?
I was in hospital at an old establishment when I was in the Navy.
In the middle of the night I woke up in terror to the realisation that there was something in the room that was checking the beds for souls to steal.
Though I didnt even belive in God back then, there was one of those Gedion Bibles by the bed which I reached for in my fear and which seemed to make whatever it was go away.

I think...probably flying back from Jersey in one of those small turboprop 'planes. The tail end of a hurricane was lashing the Channel Islands and mainland Britain, and our flight was the last one into and out of Jersey. I remember watching the indicator boards and praying that our flight would be cancelled, and walking across the tarmac to this little 'plane rocking in the wind... I've never flown backwards before.

I've never been so glad to get off a flight! (And yes, I have been scared of flying ever since...)

When I was almost raped at age thirteen. I was with five other girls, and we were able to take on the boy (who was attempting rape on all of us), but it was still terrifying.

When I choked on a hard candy that wouldn't come out of my throat. Everything around me was going dark, until someone gave me the Heimlich and I swallowed it.