I've been not depressed but super anxious and lonely for months now. I'm living with my parents for the first time in 7 years, and my grad school is online, and I work alone, so I have no social contact other than online. And anxiety is my default. It's been that way for as long as I can remember (like since I was a very small child). I'm kind of used to the anxiety except when it's coming from real life stressors, which is a fair amount of the time these days. I've been coping by drawing for like 10 hours a day to distract myself. Probably not the most healthy coping strategy, but it's not the worst either.

My experience with CBT has been pretty bad. It may have just been that my old therapists who used it were really bad, or maybe it just doesn't work for me. I'm much more responsive to DBT. One of the core teachings of DBT is distress tolerance. Which is great for anxiety. I've gotten to the point where I'm okay with being anxious, maybe because it's just become a part of who I am, or maybe because of the DBT, or some combination of the two, but anyway. Check out DBT too if you have a chance. There are some great workbooks out there for it. Even ones specific to bipolar disorder. There's a misconception sometimes that it's only for borderline personality disorder, but it's really great for bipolar and anxiety and other things too.