My sister suffered from depression and anxiety, she found that a lot of it got better when she focussed on eating more healthy and excerising more. Also, it might sound fruity, but meditation helped a lot for hre anxiety. She was still using medication, but less and less. And eventually she stopped using it altogether.
Good luck!

First, relax - my blog has a time celebrated technique: myspace.com/thedavezone

Second, you need some sort of professional therapy. Despite my formal training in traditional psychology, I've seen the best results with Dianetics. Go to dianetics.org and find a facility nearest you.

Have you tried a neurologist or endocrinologist. Sometimes symptoms of other problems can manifest themselves to appear like psychiatric issues. Good luck.

whatever you do… try not to go all VA Tech on some school…

Sounds to me like you could have a case of depersonalization/derealization. It's a very common disorder that is caused by anxiety. You may have developed it when you quit drinking. I have suffered from it for close to six months because of an anxiety attack from a bad trip. It has slowly gotten better and better, and is pretty close to being gone for me. The best thing you can do is to keep yourself calm when faced with a bad situation. It will take a lot of time unfortunately, but will eventually go away as long as you don't let your anxiety control you. Here is a link to a forum that will help you understand and cope with the disorder so you can get rid of it.

I think you should have therapy with some nice and committed person, but if you can't for some reason, then you should start doing yoga and focus especially on breathing lessons. To control the breathing is the way to control much anxiety, only it should be done in the right way.
Besides, some people feel better when they imagine those that frighten them in their underwear. It's not something I should recommend, but it's your decision.

Sweetheart, I can so empathize with what you're going through and you're not alone. SO many people suffer from this…normal, beautiful, healthy, smart, wonderful, kind people–myself included, though i'm getting beyond it:). It could be from SO MANY things: hormonal imbalance, lack of practice among a safe group of people, lack of self-esteem, lack of faith, lack of phsical exertion, solid anchors in your life; safe friends and so on. For me, I found it wasn't a lack of self-esteem like many claim but that we live in this culture that's increasingly non-personal-community oriented—and so self-centered/focused that we become more self-conscious than we would be otherwise and my hormones are way out of wack. The key is to embrace it and just take it head on at it's root and try fixing it from all these angles. Have you tried CBT group therapy? I've heard those work books don't do very much and you need to find a community type-therapy of CBT. See if there's anything on this website in your area:. For me personally, finding that Jesus is present and alive in my life has benefited tremendously—I was always luke-warm in my faith but shifting over and letting in God's love and strength (though a process that happens over time) changes everything..you become more outward/serving focused and less self-focused. It is NOT hopeless, there are root issues that need to be evaluated here. Especially now that you have ruled out anti-depresants. I will pray for you:)

I have social anxiety, and I have had a big drinking problem but have been sober now for many years. One problem always fed off the other, but in the end, I was losing to both problems. Sobriety and my prescriptions gave me my peace of mind. Also writing about my experiences. I think you will find my writings about alcohol and anxiety very interesting. There is alot more to come, so please keep checking back to the site and let me know what you think. You will be just fine.
Steve Procto