I used to suffer from anxiety and panic disorder. I have been in remission for 15 years now. I am one of those who does not like to take medication, I am not opppsed to it for other people, but I have made a personal choice from growing up with an alcoholic that I don't drink and won't take anything that could possibly become addictive. I went to psychotherapy for 3 years an did overcome my disorder through individual counseling, hypnosis and then learning self hypnosis and attended ALANON for 12 years and an ACOA group were ways to deal with it on my own (I started these before the psychotherapy). For me the issue was to find out what was causing the anxiety/panic (there is a reason). I was suffereing from PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) resulting from being stalked by someone for 2 years and growing up in an alcoholic home, which were two entirely different things, but combined together caused the anxiety/panic. This also did not come out until several years later from when the stalking incidents happened, maybe 8-10 years later. Do you have any idea what is causing the anxiety? Has anything happened in the past that you are trying to deal with or have not dealt with? These are questions to ask yourself, I do not mean for you to answer them here. I was in denial for so long that it hadn't affected me and that I had no idea what was actually causing the problem. It took a long time to deal with the issues, it is alot harder to deal with the real issue than just taking the medication and masking the real problem, which may eventually surface anyway later on. I was even a Social Worker/counselor at the time when this was going on, so no one is exempt from denial. Anyway, good luck with your problem. If you need to talk, PM me and I will send you my email address.