Yes, I'm sure there's even more incidents that we forget that can help cause the sudden anxiety too.

I use to get anxious eating ice cream cones so never bought them. My husband, however, loves ice cream cones so it was a bit disappointing to him that I never wanted to go to Baskin Robbins.

One evening we were in the Mall and he stopped and got an ice cream cone and I did too (I like ice cream all right). Well, I'm eating it and it's melting and I'm getting more and more anxious by the minute. I get a mental picture of my stepmother yelling at me, about age 5 or 6 for making a mess. I remember how jealous of my brother I was because he was a couple years older and could eat a cone without making a mess whereas I was too young to have that much control/mastery. But, of course, I was also too young to realize what the problem was and my stepmother didn't "think" about it enough to be patient. So, I was stuck with being "afraid" of ice cream cones until I understood and could reassure myself that I was an adult and could "control" the cone or that it didn't matter if I got "dirty" in the first place! I still get a tiny bit angry, especially in summer when outside when the ice cream is melting almost faster than I can lick it :-)