What has made you the most afraid you've been in your life?

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Title says it all.

When I fell under water in a deep wave machine at a swimming-pool and couldn't seem to get back up again no matter how hard I tried to kick my legs and swim up. Thankfully I was saved just moments before I could have drowned. I like water but I've never been in deep water since.

Honestly, I don't think anything in my current life has ever been as frightening as my nightmares. I've had some pretty horrifying ones.

I even came pretty close to dying once, spent a while in the hospital...but it felt like God was telling me that it wasn't my time yet, so I was basically at peace for my entire stay.

I had a similar experience in Lake Michigan once >_< Was on an inner-tube, and fell down inside, and had trouble climbing back on top of it. My toes could just barely reach the bottom, I just kind of inched my way back to shore.

Being threatened IRL is high on my list.

Even higher was something I won't talk about.

Highest of all were these two:
saving my dog from being run over just in time (this one gave me frequent flashbacks and shivers for months, and less frequent for a few years)
a "child 'protective' service" threat about removing me from my loved ones and my home over some issues in schoo which were completely unrelated to homelife which was nothing but good (this one gave me lots of problems for 20 years. Every time someone was on the door the first year after, I was hysterical, and I couldn't be alone for 1 minute, not even if my parent was going to the mailbox. This was very traumatizing for me and what kicked off my hatred for all things official about my country. For the next 2 decades every time someone was at our door my reaction was one of two things: I had such a fear reaction that I had to run to the bathroom, or I got so angry that I just wanted to do something violent to the person on the other side of the door, and all I could do was sit there biting my teeth, seething and grumbling about "go to hell" and similar things

Learning that birds don't fart.

I was most afraid when me & both my exes broke up.

Thinking I was schizophrenic

Thinking I was going to get fired.

Being face to face with bullies in between classes

When the neighbors dog attacked me.

Getting cancer

Mine involved a dog, also. One day while out cycling, a very large canine came out from a yard and came at me viciously. I'd been cycling seriously for about 14 years, having had many run-ins with dogs, but this one was worse than any other. The beast leaped at me, got his jaws around my handlebar, and nearly took me down! I thought I was a goner!

He came at me again, but finally backed off as I was screaming aggressively at him, letting loose a barrage of expletives. I will say the adrenaline rush made me ride faster and harder for the last 40 miles of that workout.

Don't know if I've ever been that afraid just a bit anxious of things, never afraid.

The thought that I'm subnormal and that it's my fault that I'm subnormal.

When my mom drove me to an "immediate care" clinic with stabbing pains in my stomach and the nurse made me wait an extended period of time, threatened me and refused any pain medication.

I don't know what to do if that ever happens again.