Your most terrifying moment?

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I have intended to reply to a similar thread before, but I was still too traumatized. Of course, I have experienced many traumatic experiences, but this is different from the others in a special way. I washed my mother-in-law's balcony glasses when she moved and witnessed a fatal accident between a car and a pedestrian from the balcony. All those sounds were enough to make me temporarily deaf. It was strange to see the ambulance and police with flashing lights but everything was quiet. My husband's friend who was helping with the move was the first to talk to me, but I couldn't hear him at all. My husband's speech and presence brought me out of my dissociative deafness. I can still hear the thumps in my head that were heard when a car ran over a person completely. I received acute trauma therapy, but writing about it still feels difficult.

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    tw for content about suicide--if you aren't comfortable with this topic, please don't read further, as it's a prominent theme in what i'm about to post. stay safe

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this post deleted the actual suicidal content part-- the scariest moment of my life was when i was about to commit and was leaning out of my window (on the fourteenth floor) and had second thoughts.

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    Okay, so one night when I was 9 or 10, I was talking with my brother while eating dinner, he was 5 years old, and I don't remember what I did, but I made him mad somehow. And so walked away from him, and he came after me, picking up a knife off of the counter, almost stabbing me with it, but luckily my sister got my dad in time. Now I'm afraid of knives and being stabbed.

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    My parents, two sons (5 and 8 years) and husband and I went on a vacation in a beautiful hotel. We were on the 7th floor and had adjacent rooms. Husband was in the lobby. My 5 year old was in and out of the balcony, but I needed to give my other son something whom already was in my parents room. Like a true moron I thought: the railing is high so he (the 5 year old) is gonna be fine. 10 seconds later I return yo my room and it was empty, with an empty balcony. Mind you, the whole balcony could be seen from the inside. Frozen in fear, not wanting to face the possibility that somehow he DID climb over and fall to his death, I just screamed out his name. Nothing…
    And then, after what felt like an eternity, a faint: yes mommy? He tuck himself between the railing and the wall, there was just a little space there for my sons body. He was never in an danger there; but the feeling… that feeling f*cked me up for a long time. I am still beating myself over the head over this. So stupid!

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