Anxiety...

One thing I've noticed about anxiety is that, for me, it's not so much of an attack but more of a slow, seeping leak that slowly escalates. It creeps in unnoticed, starts to whisper and then increases in volume until it's finally loud enough that you can identify it for what it really is and then kick it out with firm rebuke. Sometimes it looks like things that belong, sometimes it looks like people you love, but it's never true and it's never real. Only an evil simulation of something good. Kind of like Satan. But just like him, you can dismiss it with power when you trust in reality, and truth, and ultimately in God being who He says He is. :)