I have some strange residual effects from my F.O.O (family of origin). As an only child, I made a great tool for my parents' passive aggressive digs at each other and also a good scapegoat for everything that went wrong in the house. If anything breaks in the house-especially appliances, I would get blamed for it and would get SCREAMED at. Most of the time I didn't even handle that appliance when it was broken. Fast forward to my marriage now. Whenever appliances break in the house, I go into a big huge panic attack expecting to be chewed out by my husband. When the dryer broke, I was in tears and hysterics. He was puzzled that I thought he was going to chew me out and yell at me.
It's weird how such stupid, subtle things can be such big triggers for panic attacks.