It's really not good for your doctor to stop lorazepam and not offer you something else to provide ongoing treatment. The fact is that you're dealing with really bad anxiety and that he's leaving you essentially untreated for it is not at all helpful. He really should be looking at your overall situation and maybe increase something like an SSRI or whatever.

You asked about coming off meds for anxiety and I had managed to do that. I'm about 90% off Clonazepam/ Klonopin.

I did it through therapy. CBT helped manage the symptoms but therapy got to the underlying source of the anxiety. Once I saw she understood the cause I was able to change how I relate to my thoughts and responses because I had insight into why they were happening in the first place.

It takes time and patience but it worked for me.

I take Klonopin maybe 1 or 2 times a month now. I'm not completely free of anxiety but it is much better. I still break out in sweats, get tense, etc but the racing thoughts are pretty much gone and the sense of impending doom is a lot more manageable.

Next up, is my depression. But that's a really big thing that we're just starting to get into. I can see that it's going to be a lot of work.