When the anxiety won't leave me alone, I get basic and think about what I think the "other"/T could do? It's kind of like when you're physically sick and just have to wait until you get better?

You've done all your self-care things, no one else can really get the anxiety monkey off your back but time can. Our feelings and bodily processes change; we get hungry or thirsty, we eat, we're not hungry or thirsty anymore. We get sleepy, we nap/sleep, we wake up. We're anxious, we do whatever else we can (I read), go about our day as best we can (instead of focusing on the anxiety) and eventually we realize we aren't so anxious?