I also used to have general, ever present anxiety, but never was medicated for it. It seems to have abated by around age 29 to a large extent.
One thing that helped was finding a group of friends who loved and accepted me as I was. Really a key moment in dealing with the social component of anxiety.
I think pharmaceutical intervention and my path are both valid, but it's way harder to prescribe "friends who love you in the right way."
Oh trust, my friends are amazing and great. But doesn't stop the always present anxiety of everything collapsing and going wrong. Worked on some CBT to also help me manage it, but medicine has been a really great solution for me, in my opinion. And honestly, I feel like my anxiety has gotten worse as I've aged, I wasn't anxious at all like this in college and I'm now 30.
One thing that helped was finding a group of friends who loved and accepted me as I was. Really a key moment in dealing with the social component of anxiety.
I think pharmaceutical intervention and my path are both valid, but it's way harder to prescribe "friends who love you in the right way."