India, Oct. 15 -- Every person suffering from anxiety has different symptoms and coping mechanisms. The author too had her own set. Here is how she overcame her anxiety.

When something happens, something bad, we often try to pinpoint the exact moment of its arrival.

But some things come in silence, slowly and inconspicuously. They stay in silence, grow in silence and suddenly surface like a beast that's bigger than us.

That's how anxiety came to me, silently and in disguise.

In retrospect, I may always have had the seed of anxiety in me. However, my indifference to most things surrounding me during my late teens to my early twenties probably kept it in check. I always considered myself as someone with depth and little vanity, but life...