Long time lurker, first time poster here 

I've struggled with anxiety since birth and awakened to finding a solution to it when I was around twenty years old, while I've certainly come a long way since then a soothing memory for me was looking up the symptoms of the anxiety disorder.

It was, almost silly, reading through the many different symptoms and coming across one that simply said, a feeling of impending doom.

It sounds, fantastical. Almost imaginary. As though someone had placed a curse of doom upon me, and yet...

Never had a phrase of so few words speak to me on a fundamental and emotional level. It was accurate. It was precise. My anxiety could be looked at, analyzed and measured.

It was at that moment then I realized that it wasn't a curse, not as such as I once upon a time pictured it myself. After all, if someone could come forth with a list of symptoms and write one down called, a feeling of impending doom, and it being the most accurate and silly phrase I've read... then who is to say I could not piece together my own anxiety and both analyze and manage it on my own.

I've only become greater for it, and those times I'm feeling low I can recall that memory and feel soothed in knowing that anxiety can be cataloged in great detail.