I had good results from general antidepressants . It takes a while ~ 68 weeks I think for them to work , but when that happened , I was able to get a lot more out of therapy and I was able to make the behavioral changes needed to improve it took a few years of consistent effort for that to work , but it did . I still get anxious all the time but it ' s not at a disorderlevel , and it doesn ' t significantly impair my functioning , so I am not diagnosed with an anxiety disorder anymore . I think a lot of my current anxiety is from coffee and the antidepressant I currently take , which helps more with depression but tends to increase anxiety . I also tried benzos which did wonders to alleviate my anxiety but I started using them at any hint of anxiety even very mild , which made my anxiety worse overall because I was just enabled to avoid even more , rather than learn to cope .