Comment preview: It's a common defense mechanism: It can't happen to me, because I'm a good person, and I don't dress like a slut. I don't ask for it, and I do all the right things. I make good decisions. It can't happen to me. Bad things happen to people who on some level ....

Comment preview: MY TIME TO SHINE. I've posted this on reddit before, but I feel reposting it won't hurt since it is to date the scariest thing to happen to me: when I was younger I used to live by the woods and could see a cemetery from my back porch. One Easter I remembe ....

Comment preview: It really is. I never thought it could be so bad until the fear of seizure happened to me. I had a period of bad drinking and decided I was going to quit before I became a lifelong alcoholic. During the withdrawal I was getting "brain zaps" and had a littl ....

Comment preview: >The fact that it's often accompanied by terrifying visions only makes it worse. Not everyone gets visions. I've never had terrifying visions, only the paralysis. Sometimes it happens while I'm dreaming, which can be disorienting, but once I'm awake it' ....

Comment preview: I'm going to try to respond to this rationally, but I am particularly conscious of this sort of thing. More and more frequently, I read these descriptions about what happens to people with mental health issues when police confront them and the outcome is n ....

Comment preview: Wow, I'm sorry that happened to you! What happened to me was nowhere near as terrifying as that, but your story kind of reminds me of something that happened to me when I was in my early 20s. I met a guy at the airport when I was on a trip. We were both on ....

Comment preview: This video really hit me, because it is what I am terrified will happen to me some day soon. I'm a college nursing student who is comfortably bisexual, but has only been with male partners, but I'm still living with my religious parents. I know they would ....

Comment preview: I was raped when I was 12, and honestly have no trauma resulting from it. At all, really. I don't even think about it now unless the topic of rape comes up like now. Sometimes I feel I should be traumatized because society tells me that this is the worst t ....

Comment preview: Men get arroused by many things: scent, appearance, circumstance. It's not as simple as "if we don't want it, it won't happen". Only reason I'm replying here is because it happened to me. Thanksgiving, 2008. I had sexual relations with a girl. We had relie ....

Comment preview: This may get lost in all of the replies, but this(aside from the being held down in a terrifying manner) is what happened to me in 2009, and it is actually how my son was conceived. He simply took the condom off in the middle without telling me(I couldn't ....

Comment preview: Six years ago I was sexually assaulted by one of my closest friends. I didn't tell anyone- at all- for over three years. To this day, I sometimes I still struggle with crippling terror of the dark, brief spurts of actually paralyzing paranoia, and the fact ....

Comment preview: When I was 12, I stabbed an older guy [ not sure if late teens/early 20's, it was dark, and I was scared] who was attempting to rape me. I still don't know what happened after I ran away. Told no one for years, but yes, it haunted me. I became suicidal and ....

Comment preview: I've only had sleep paralysis once, by my fuck was it terrifying. I was dreaming I was running from some black figure in a misty dark forest, and they kept getting closer and closer. Suddenly I woke up in my bed, terrified and unable to move or make any n ....

Comment preview: I hear voices no one else hears, and see things no one else sees. Judas, the main voice of the five I regularly hear, is always in my eyesight. Mostly what I see are disembodied skeletal hands, something crawling along the inside of the walls and floors, a ....

Comment preview: Here's the real cause of victim-blaming: The just world fallacy. It's not rooted in a desire to blame the victim, it's rooted in a desire for the cold, indifferent universe to be a warm and loving place. When victims of rape (or abuse) blame themselves, th ....

Comment preview: I was babysitting a few years ago and after the kids had gone upstairs to get ready for bed I started cleaning up the house. I turned around and there was a huge muscular bald guy, over 6 feet tall and terrifying looking standing behind me just staring at ....

Comment preview: >the guy in front of me turns around with this smirk on his face saying "wassup baby?" There was a brief moment of joy as I thought "he thinks I'm a woman!" ...followed by feeling like shit. Because he thought I was a woman, which meant he thought he co ....

Comment preview: I just wanted to comment and say this is what happened to me. I was raped by two men on the military base on which I lived while my husband was deployed... I reported it the way I was supposed to. I was harassed by NCIS so much and rumors spread quickly th ....

Comment preview: What happened to your sister was similar to what happened to me. I was locked in my room (the door locked on the outside with a smooth knob on mine so I couldn't pop it and the windows were nailed shut) for weeks on end a lot when I was younger. To this da ....

Comment preview: Sadly, it happens more than people would hope. A similar experience happened to me when I was 10. I was rollerblading at a park and a friend convinced me to go down a hill (even though I was terrified). She went first and was fine, so I went, landed full b ....

Comment preview: When I was about 19, a friend of mine tricked me into smoking weed laced with PCP. The way it went down is that he lit up a bowl and shared it with me, then casually mentioned after the fact that "by the way, that was Love Boat - weed laced with PCP". I ....

Comment preview: the tongue one kinda happened to me! i had a severe allergic reaction to indian food while i was house sitting by myself, by the time i found my phone and called 911 my tongue was so swollen i sounded like the teacher from Charlie Brown! i realized that th ....

Comment preview: There were two times something relating to this thread have happened to me. One I mentioned in another comment, the other is this exact situation. A "friend" stopped over, I was taking a shower, when I got out, I was in a towel and she followed me. We were ....

Comment preview: Not to bring a different topic into this thread, but what a lot of people are saying here is getting me to think about something that happened to me about a decade ago. At the time, I was dating a manipulative asshole. The situation was...complicated. I li ....

Comment preview: I once had an experience with the "White Hag" as it's commonly known. I woke up and had an old lady sitting at the foot of my bed, facing away for me. She moved to face me and turned out to be a half decomposed woman with white hair and dressed all in whi ....