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I've dealt with the same issues, and Tara Brach is a great meditation teacher. I have eventually managed to curb the worst of my anxiety but it took many many years of meditation, yoga, therapy, etc etc.
In terms of pharmaceuticals, I was also skeptical but ended up taking Klonopin after a bad stretch. It actually helped quite a bit and now I'm completely off of them.
I think that the healthiest practices are meditation, exercise and therapy. At the end of the day it just takes a lot of work. Anxiety is essentially your brain being habituated to interpreting everything in your environment as a threat, and you have to work to change the way you naturally respond to things. Wish I could give you a stronger recommendation but that's my experience.
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