What You Gonna Do When Things Go Wrong?

[-Talbot-]

Are you good at thinking on your feet or do you panic?

[Mamyalynne]

I am calm in a crisis, have often had the call to come and cool situations down - not major disasters of course.

Flapping and panic adds to confusion and gets you nowhere fast.

[RandyMarsh]

If i don't save you then whose gonna save you?

[Mamyalynne]

Catch me when I fall........please.

[ladybirder]

Panic:-(

[mushroom25]

//not major disasters of course.//

you may surprise yourself. in a major disaster there are often stories where some individuals will undertake some quasi-reckless action and be granted the appellation "hero". not at all - the people concerned just instinctively see what needs to be done, and they get on with it. it's only afterwards they'll get any sense of realization of the danger they might have been in.

[Mamyalynne]

I should have said, not major disasters so far in my life.

Various medical issues , burst arteries, cardiac arrests (first one I was 16).

Many emotional ones too of course as we all meet in life.

I think you find your level only when something happens and all about you flap or scatter, or indeed if you are alone with the event.

[-Talbot-]

I'm not a panic-er. The wife puts that down to having a heart of stone :0/

[Baldric]

I don't do panic, a quick assessment to see what would help calm the situation, then do what I can, if I can.

[Prudie]

I'm good with the big stuff, it's the little things I might flap about

[ummmm]

Depends what it is.

[emmie]

i tend not to panic, when a lady fell ill on the bus i called the emergency services, whilst some people were frozen in their seats.

[ummmm]

I wouldn't panic in that situation. It's the kids that made me panic over the years more than anything else. Also I'm a very bad traveler.

[-Talbot-]

I knew you were Irish but not the traveller bit, ummmm ... you live and learn.

[ladybirder]

Actually I am being a bit hard on myself. I remember many moons ago at a friend's house, her little boy, about 18 months - 2 years old, was choking on something, can't remember what it was. She started screaming and crying and not going anything to help him when I snatched him off her, thumped him a few times on his back and turned him upside down and the object flew out of his mouth. He was fine. She was so grateful. Now had it been my little boy I don't know if I could have remained so calm. Or indeed if I would do the same now.

[gness]

Don't think I've ever really panicked in my life, Talbot......and yes, I think quickly and I sort quickly....which is just as well really............☺

I know that when I've had to deal with really major emergencies I become icy cold.......flapping's useless.....x

[woofgang]

Form experience, I know that I don’t panic in emergencies or under stress but I fall apart majorly once its over.

[ummmm]

Shut up, Talbot :-)

Travelling from A to B is what I meant (in case anyone believed him)

[-Talbot-]

Been there with my own son, Ladybirder. The wife turned into an exhibition at Madame Tussaud's (Not slating her that's just how some people are)

[Eleena]

No good under pressure at all.

[david small]

I'm a slow thinker, so panic slowly.