 Is your anxiety a monster that's attacking you? Is it an external force that comes to get you, overwhelms you, over which you have no power or no control? Well, it feels like a monster because I can't control it. No matter what I do, it keeps coming back. When we look at it that way, understandable though it may be, we are often giving up some of our power in the recovery process. Then it's really hard and you can wind up feeling like what can I do? There's literally nothing I can do. I am powerless and nothing I do is going to matter.