BabyCakesHunt, hi!

I suffered from exactly the same thing your husband does: I (no matter what) always had my biggest anxiety on late evenings/early nights... it was like, when the sun came down, I got a huge increment on the amount of anxiety I had. It did not have anything to do with external triggers, since every day was different and I had nothing recurrent at that time to blame my anxiety to. I just had no idea where this anxiety increase came from!

Nevertheless, after some time, my H did notice from what I told him about my past, that when I still lived at my parents house, that time of the day was when my father came back home from work. I had terrible problems with my father so it was a HUGE stressful time where I practically got panic attacks and more than once had to hide under the dinning table . So as my H said once: hit a dog with a stick everyday at dusk during 23 yrs. Then stop the hitting and I bet you the dog still will get very agitated every dusk even though he does not get hit ever again... That was the most convincing theory of why I had such a time-of-the-day related peak of anxiety.

So here comes my question? Can your husband recall something like this to happen in his childhood/teens that could have made a mark on him in a way that, even if that event does not happen anymore, he still gets the physical reactions to it?

Hope this can help a bit! Please let me know...

- Cat