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Have you ever been really scared?

I got mugged by a small group of teenage girls in London a couple of years ago, one of them pulled a knife out and I just totally wet myself I was that frozen with fear. They were trying to get my wallet and phone but actually gave up because I just couldn’t function. I’d gone there on a Saturday, on my own on the train and it turned out to be one of the worst days of my life. The police took so long to arrive that I basically had to go back to the train station straight after I’d finished talking to them and I could feel every person I walked past, looking at me knowing that I had wet myself. I’ll literally never go to London again.

I do however feel blessed that I wasn’t physically harmed as I have read so much about knife crime, it’s so, so scary.
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I've had a group of armed men break into my home and hurt me.
It took some time to not be in constant fear.
Strongtea · 22-25, M
Oh my gosh! I literally don’t know what I’d do if that happened. I suppose I would just totally freeze again. I really hope you’re ok?!!@thinkingoutloud
@Strongtea I did freeze. I expected to be dead that day but for some miraculous reason I lived. I am okay now, I can think of it without breaking out in fear.
Strongtea · 22-25, M
I’m glad you’re ok! @thinkingoutloud
atlantic59 · 61-69, M
@thinkingoutloud that's horrific! So sorry that that happened
atlantic59 · 61-69, M
about 30 years ago my dad's friend who was a pretty solid man in the second world war had a home invasion in his house in Vancouver when he quite elderly and they tied him to a chair and went through his house. There were a lot of home invasions around that time. They didn't hurt him too much but I can only imagine how it affected him after
@atlantic59 even if they didn't hurt him physically, it still shakes a person's safety and I can't imagine it not being traumatic.