When did you get really frightened of life?

Question

After the Tsunami, I couldnt sleep or eat for weeks and often cried alone at night, I didnt have first hand experience but what happened around me scared me to death.

Answer 1

A long time ago, when I saw people die in the rave scene, my best mate in an accident. Another which wasn't.
When I was abused at school.
Rescuing a girl who was diving way beyond her limits, that scared the life out of me, I was shaking all day an nearly gave up diving after that one.
Facing burglers in my parents house.
Getting mugged, whilst sreaming at police for help.
Being outnumbered in a revenge attack on a house in London with my lass in the house, that was fun. Not.
Stopping a car thief with a landrover. Wrote the car off but it was worth the look on his face. HA HA.

The list goes on, but its all good mate, life will find a way.

It does throw you sideways. Its such an illusion, safety.

But hell what doesn't kill us eventually makes us stronger.

Answer 2

Hi, Flipper. I live in the tsunami zone, too. I was lucky enough to be away in the US for Christmas, but what I came back to haunts me to no end. Finding out over time whether my friends were alive or dead was something I never imagined doing, and just cut a whole in my heart. This was the most frightening thing for me.
I'm not a big fan of emo talk therapy, but found it helpful at the time, and volunteer work gives me a small feeling that I'm doing something about it.
I hadn't lived in Thailand for long before the water, but after time, it made me realize that this brought out a tremendous amount of strength and generosity from the people and taught me a lot of good lessons.
I hope you'll be feeling better :)

Answer 3

The Tsunami, 9/11 World Trade Towers, etc, etc, etc. Yeah, I have seen a lot of people with a similar condition.

I've long ago accepted that safety and security is nothing but an illusion. Also long ago I accepted the certainty of my own death and overcame all fear of death.

So I am not frightened of life at all.

~ Eric Putkonen

Answer 4

I moved 450 miles after 9.11. I now live in Ohio. I know what that is like. But now I come to realize if my time was up, it's up, you know?

I moved here because I could not stand planes flying over my house in the Rockaways. I would jump up out of a deep sleep every single time I heard a plane. I moved because this was making me crazy. The fears remain, you have to move to get rid of one fear. But where you go, you may unleash another one.

Face it or flee. Fight or flight, which one will you choose.

Answer 5

im sorry to hear that hun ive pretty much been that way since the age of 8 im now 45 it was a person not a tsunami that shook me

Answer 6

I became frightened for life, after reading 'the culture of fear' - a book that opened my eyes and now i can no longer close them with any real calm or sense of well being!!

Answer 7

When my whole entire life fell apart. Everything I had ever worked for came crashing down and having to face an abusive partner and have him strangle you till you pass out and kick you in the ribs to revive you all while your 1yr old is watching?thats when I got scared...I couldnt understand what I'd done to deserve it and why no one liked me for me anymore

Answer 8

after the tsunami

Answer 9

On 9/11, I realized that there are plenty of careless heartless people out there that nothing matters to them. Not even the life of someone who did nothing to them, nor does their own life matter to them. It's sad.

Answer 10

The first time I jumped out of an airplane, in flight, 5000ft up.