Hey Pandas! What Was Your Scariest Moment In Life?

My first panic attack. I remember it vividly. It felt like the world was crashing down around me and I was going to die. I was hyperventilating so I couldn't breathe. I was crying so I couldn't see. It all came out of nowhere. I was at my (now ex's) house for the first time. It was a new environment. It felt like it lasted a long time and I wasn't going to escape.

I was diagnosed officially with anxiety two months ago. I've had two more panic attacks and three anxiety attacks. Panic and anxiety attacks don't get easier, but it's easier for me to calm myself down, and easier to tell when they might happen. It feels like they happen for hours sometimes. My last panic attack was a few days ago, I was in my room alone. It lasted five minutes but it felt like a lot more. For anyone also struggling with this, remember you can get through this, it happens to a lot more people than you'd expect. You're not alone no matter what your head tells you

i was in bed, and i was playing with my pajama pant straps, when suddenly i felt a hand on my thigh and it took me a good minute to realise it was mine 😂 felt like i almost had a heart attack tho, especially because i have always been paranoid about someone sneaking into wherever i am and killing me

My family was driving on a highway on the right lane. A guy was trying to merge into the highway. Instead of slowing down and waiting for my dad to pass, he sped up trying to beat him. Major miscalculation on his part, because he slammed into our car and spinning it a little. The right side of the car took some heavy damage. Thankfully, everyone was okay.

When I was 5 we went to Goa. We were staying at a beach side resort. The currents were too strong that day so we were stuck in the resort pool instead. My dad was holding my 3 year old brother in the same tube as him. Out of jealousy , I got out of my own tube , swam to them and tried to fit into their tube. As soon as i got between the tube, we flipped over and were struggling to resurface. Dad couldn't get out of the tube cuz with me it became a tight fit. He thought either me or my brother would die in that moment. My uncle who was also swimming noticed us but assumed we were playing, then he realized that we're actually drowning and flipped us back to the surface. I got a nice earful from all the adults afterwards. In that moment I didn't think I'd die but looking back it surely was scary.

Oh geez, honestly I have quite a few. For starters my husband was serving in the army when a wall collapsed on top of him. After he was dug out, they realized he also had his side filled with shrapnel. I can vividly remember the phone call in the middle of the night and driving our 4 kids to Grandma's house so I could head to the airport. Thank GOD he's fine now. The second scariest thing would be when my youngest son (he was 1 when this happened) had to be sent to the ER for a burst appendix.

This includes a TW for miscarriage.

I experienced a natural miscarriage a few years ago. We knew it was coming, and I’d been told to expect it to be like a nasty period. Lies. Lies. Lies. The pain was excruciating, like med-free transitional labor. The bleeding was so heavy, and went on for hours. I thought I was going to die. There must have been something wrong, right? I had to be hemorrhaging. No way this was normal. Eventually, the pain subsided, and the bleeding slowed. And, then high on endorphins from the pain, I felt stupid and silly for being scared. I did tell my OB she was full of c**p, and it was nothing like a “nasty period”.

Korea, after the fighting, 4:30 a.m., message over the loudspeaker: attention attention this is an x-ray alert. Pause. We don't know what that is. To be on the safe side, go to the rifle room, collect your weapon, and report to your assigned location. When we got there, the first sergeant said go back to the barracks, collect anything you want to keep, and get back here within 10 minutes. For the record, and x-ray alert just means be ready for something to happen. Follow up, only two people in the 7th division adjutant general's office knew the answer. The corporal was signed out. The first sergeant was AWOL. Because of the screwy way the army thinks, he lost one stripe, but if not knocking him down to the newly re-established Buck sergeant, three stripes!

A former student of mine died in a car accident. i went to view the open casket in the funeral home. I was alone in the room, and terrified to walk over to the casket. My heart beat heavily, and it felt like a slow motion nightmare. It took a long time to reach him, and all i could see while walking was the wood paneling and flowers on top, for what felt like an eternity of suspense.

I had never seen a dead body, and i was completely alone with him. I have never physically felt fear like that, so i presume i have a phobia. I was unable to speak to him, like goodbye and things, and i exited quickly.

One time late at night in my bed I think I saw something that looked like a ghost idk i don't really remember it.

When a customer asked for my name a few weeks ago. For context: She gave me a $10 and I hit the $10 button, but she waited to give me the coins and tried to get me to take the coins and give her change in dollar bills(which would make my drawer short) and I told her I couldn't do that(I told her why). She got mad and asked for my name multiple times. I told her twice that I did not feel comfortable doing that, nor did I feel that it was not appropriate. She asked for my name once more, then my manager's name. I got the manager. I have never had issues with a customer like that before. Scared the living daylights out of me, but I kept my composure the rest of my shift as I mulled over the situation questioning the situation better than I did(I could have gotten my GM a lot sooner but that's about all I could have done). This all took place in the matter of a minute. Good times.