Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

It sounds like what you did works for you. Hurrah!
Keep track of what works when to help you figure out patterns so you can learn new ways of switching those triggers to off.
Best wishes.
I have found several instances where i take my Xanax now and I am able to handle situations much better, such as public speaking, etc.
My anxiety is up and down, but for years I always had major anxiety before I had to do public things.
It just works, it clams my nerves, etc. We have to do what we need to do in order to get by.