Sebastian Junger
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Like I came home and I was like, woohoo, I'm alive.
I made it, blah, blah, blah.
It's like, oh, my God, I almost died on a totally ordinary day.
And it could happen again.
This also could be the day that I die.
Maybe I have another aneurysm.
And I completely freaked myself out.
It was a classic post-trauma, like, anxiety, panic reaction.
Like, it was all very classic.
It was way worse than combat.
And... But one of the problems...
I started to have the sense that I wasn't really there and that maybe I had died, which sounds freaky, but apparently it's quite common in people that almost die that they're seized with this fear that they're actually a ghost and they didn't make it.
I know it sounds insane.
But I can just tell you, like, I sincerely had that worry.
It was the ultimate panic disorder, right?