What if you were trafficked into a cult...or were mauled by a grizzly bear...or were stabbed 27 time
“Is this really happening? Like, is this really my reality? I’m questioning myself as to whether or
“We are not necessarily who we think we are…There are more paradoxes in life than things that make s
“Time stopped while my brain was trying to catch up, and I was horrified I was confused I was bewild
“I was like a walking dead. I was just a shell, but I couldn’t stop…my soul was gone.” Producer
“My life is so much more fragile than I thought it was, and my existence goes beyond this tiny littl
“It just got too hurtful to think of him in the ground and me still alive…I couldn’t understand the
“I had no reference point of how to live or behave or anything….It was like this cocoon had been jus
“I honestly think that if the mom I grew up with hadn’t given me such a great sense of self-esteem,
“I kept thinking there’s no way that God is going to let this happen to me…What could I have done in
“It was like I was in a whole other universe for like five to ten minutes just walking around, like
“Your whole sense of reality has been shaken so much that you question what is even real any more.”&
“The best way I can explain how it feels to not be believed is just profound loneliness…To not know
Producers: Whit MissildineEpisode Summary: Whit Missildine, host of This Is Actually Happening
“The surrealism of the experience just it was hard to fathom…here we were in a clothing store being
“You try not to think about the fact that you really think you’re going to die here…that it’s totall
“It’s not like there was time to ponder your fate…you just thought, we’re powerless to get out of th
“The world looks like it’s coming to an end, and another cloud comes over…Everything goes dark, and
“There’s really no way to explain how it feels when you realize one decision you made in an instant
“All the reality that I had been putting off, and all of the denial, it all crashed in on me.”
“I was too ashamed to reach out and say, ‘Look, I don’t understand what’s happening, I think I’m goi
