answer:It depends on the thing for me. I don’t have children, so I can’t speak to that, except to say I would imagine worrying about children is probably way up at the top of the list for most everyone who does have children. If I have an ongoing situation, where the end is in the distance or nowhere in sight, I tend to stay at a constant state of low level anxiety that gets triggered now and then to peak. Times like this it takes me a while to calm back down or even to feel happy. I try to think of anxiety like labor, do your best to rest between the contractions. The problem is I know there is still going to be more pain coming down the pike, and so that makes it more difficulty to really come back down to normal. When lots of different things are going wrong it’s basically the same, because it seems like if it’s not one thing it’s another. I think we get on overload. I know many people who start out stressed from some bad life events and if it drags on too long they start getting phobic. A common one is they become afraid to drive. Some people move more towards being agoraphobic. They start avoiding going out or doing anything adventurous. On the other hand, if I’m basically doing pretty good and life has been relatively easy for a while, a few minutes or even hours of worry, if everything turned out ok, I would be fine almost immediately after. One thing I’m beginning to see about myself is I’m getting a little more paranoid as I get older that bad things will happen. I don’t mean a general sense of paranoia, but it’s more situational. I have a big fear of regretting, and a big fear of having known better and letting something bad happen, because I didn’t act on my paranoia. Unfortunately, I’m right a lot. I don’t say that to brag, I would love to be wrong. What mean is I seem to be more aware than most people where the dangers are. My husband barely suffers from anxiety. He takes things as they come and doesn’t worry about things that haven’t happened yet. As a side note. When I lived in a very cold part of the country I often kept a small blanket in the car just in case.