Rapaire - you hit the nail on the head for me.

I was about 14 when the Cuban missile crisis arose and had, a few weeks previously, read Neville Shute's 'On The Beach'. Bad combination, particularly since my parents were not the sort of people that I could go to to unload worries or even just discuss what was going on. I don't think I slept a full night for quite a while and had fears of nuclear war up into my twenties, particularly once I had my children.

One day I started thinking about where I was going with this and worked out that this was one of the things that I could not do anything about and so should stop making myself ill over it. Took a lot of training to not keep thinking about it, especially in that time between wakefulness and sleeping, but it worked in the end.

Now I look at what happens and, if I can do something to change it I will. If not - ce la vie - I'll just get closer to coming back as a wolf!