what’s your biggest fear, not like spiders or heights, the real one
mine’s dying without ever actually making it, like looking back one day and feeling like i failed at life overall
curious what everyone else actually carries around …
what’s your biggest fear, not like spiders or heights, the real one
mine’s dying without ever actually making it, like looking back one day and feeling like i failed at life overall
curious what everyone else actually carries around …
I nearly drowned as a kid and have slight thalassaphobia. Throw me in the ocean and I die from a panic attack ;D
I can’t swim in it. My body just shuts down. Seas and deep rivers are also no option. But the public pool is fine!
Oh wow. I’m sorry you have to deal with that. Can relate, but I’m more in the high discomfort zone than phobia. That almost drowning must have been terrifying. Do you remember it or was it an early infancy thing?
I was 9ish and it was my first time at the beach so I didn’t know anything about undercurrents. The days before were very stormy. So even though I was close to the beach I wasn’t able to get out. Whenever I thought I made it, I was pulled back in and underwater. My mother totally underestimated the situation and watched. Don’t know how long it actually took me but it felt like ages until I managed to crawl out.
That sounds terrifying. This actually reminds me a lot of ‘Deep Water’ by William Douglas, we read it in 12th grade, he went through something really similar as a kid …
Dang, sounds like a really close call. That’ll definitely buy you a phobia.
People can drown / get pulled far into deeper water p easily in some beaches, even in relatively shallow water (chest high). Just a few months ago a guy that owns a well known restaurant here tried to save someone from drowning in a situation similar to yours. He and 2 other people that also tried to help drowned trying to rescue the person, who also didn’t make it. Was all over the news. Some beaches’ll fuck you up.
Thanks for sharing and glad you’re OK.