Hmm, mine was before I turned 20, and I was in severe panic in a different country. Mostly I was on edge from too much stress during the trip, too much suppressed emotion or fear perhaps, seeing sick relatives did not help. Needless to say, I was hypersensitive and the places where my mother and I were going did not make me feel safe. I was terrified and I saw lights flashing during a different night, and basically that was a sign that day that something was really going to go wrong energetically. It was as if no one else saw those flashes, and denied seeing them, so then I didn't trust the people around me. I nearly jumped out of my hotel room because of panic and not having enough air. It was seriously like a horror movie! Needless to say I was in a difficult place and the circumstances that time were so strained both with my mother and my environment that I did not know whom to trust. Too much panic, adrenaline for two weeks, and I snapped at the end of that week. I was unconscious for a day. I threatened and yelled and screamed, it was truly terrifying and the worst possible experience of my life. Once I got back to the states, well eventually with some medications and hospitalization my mental state evened out. But to this day, it's difficult to talk about because it was simply too much for me to handle, too much anger, fear, sick relatives, foreign country, bad relationship with my mother, though we later made up. Just it was too much psychic or psychological trauma, and being a sensitive introvert in that setting did not help. People and some circumstances are absolutely vile and it's not my fault that I was a victim of those circumstances. I'm learning to let go of self-blame and recovering my dignity despite psychological illness.
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