Echoes, what helped to relieve your anxiety?

I think part of why I'm feeling so down is just the realization that anxiety really is a huge problem for me. When I started therapy, I had this idea that I would go and just spew out everything that had happened in my past, and that that would somehow magically make me feel better and I could move on. I think I'm finding my issues go quite a bit deeper than I thought. I have every reason to be wired to be anxious thanks to my childhood, but somehow, I never realized how freaking anxious I really am. I'm not sure I'm even explaining this well, but it's really got me down and kind of sucked away all of my hope. I don't know the way out.