Reply #3: Those were all biggies on the stress-ometer.

[femmocrat]

For me:

7. JFK assassination
4. 2000 election debacle -- totally shook my faith in democracy
2. 9/11 and the aftermath -- bush invading Iraq, etc.
3. 2010 Gulf Disaster -- I would describe it as more a sense of doom, than stress
1. Cuban Missile Crisis -- somehow I had faith this one would work out OK, but I was very young
5. Arab oil embargo -- oh those gas lines were stressful!
6. Watergate -- more engrossing than stressful

One of the scariest disasters I experienced was Three Mile Island, however. I was terrified we would all wake up dead.