Hi guys, I am new on here so I thought I would give you a little background on my anxiety and what is currently going on with it. 

I am a teenager, who was diagnosed with General Anxiety Disorder around four months ago. I had suffered from major anxiety and mild depression for a few years, but it really started to increase as my schedule got busier, and the pressure to do well increased. I knew I was always an anxious person, but figured it was just because I lacked confidence. However, this past year it got immensely worse as I began to have panic attacks often, one even lasting as long as an hour where I was alone and banging my head against a table, my mind took over all of my thoughts, and I kept telling myself I dissapoint everyone in my life, and am worthless. On top of the panic attacks, I would stress about every little thing, as well as overthink things to the point where I only increased my anxiety by letting my braing put thoughts into my head. I also would be filled with fear, anxiety and panic every day leading up to my teams practice, as I was also anxious I would mess up and everyone would hate me. I was not able to enjoy anything, as I let my anxiety get the best of me. However, at the time I did not know I had GAD, so I did not understand why I was feeling this way. When my parents started to notice the panic attacks and how stressed I was constantly they got me into therapy. After about a month or two, my therapist diagonosed me with GAD (as well as OCD which contributed to my anxiety as well) and reccomended I consider taking medication. That moment was terrifying but also exciting, I was terrified with the names of the disorders, and felt like I was weird or something was wrong with me, but at the same time it felt so good to place my feelings with a name and a plausible thing. Not only that but I later found out anxiety runs in my family on both sides, and my dad also struggles severly with it. All of this was eye opening, but I was ashamed. I only told two of my closest friends at first a few weeks later. I began taking medication, which at first I was worried to take, but I have been on them for around three months now and the changes have been incredible. Every day is still a battle, but my panic attacks became nonexistent and I was able to begin enjoying my daily activites again. However, these past two weeks have been extremely stressful and emotional, and I had my first panic attack since starting meds, and another emotional breakdown the next day. I felt like a failure, I thought I had come so far and finally started to get ahold of my anxiety, and then all of a sudden I crashed. I am so frustrated that I broke so much progress, but in talking to my therapist, she resassured me there will always be setbacks, but the progress I have made is not diminished. It is just at a standstill for a moment. These past few weeks have been incredibly trying on me with my own personal issues, as well as outside stressors, so I am curious to see how you guys manage your anxiety? I would love to learn some ways to be able to calm myself down and process things instead of going straight into overhwhelming feelings of panic.