I recovered from anxiety without ever taking a medication for it. Meds are to help you to cope when you are having difficulty. Meds don't cure the anxiety (they might lessen it but if you stop the med the anxiety will come back). What cures anxiety is figuring out what is feeding it (what thoughts and feelings that you are having and which life experiences you had while growing up which are causing the anxiety). If you grow up in an insecure environment you can have anxiety.

These are the issues that I worked on which fed my anxiety: low self worth, unhealthy boundaries, unexpressed feelings from the past, learning to live in the present, learning social skills and problem solving, learning to meet my needs, learning how to deal with my feelings, etc. One thing that is really important in healing is learning how to be aware of what is going on with you and then figuring it all out, where it is coming from and what it means. Self discovery and understanding is how you get better. A good therapist will help you do this............