I can only ask if you have family support. I don't know what I would do without my family. But I know not all people are fortunate to have family close by. I am so new to this but I can certainly empathise. It has taken years for my family to come to reality, but when my husband went to the doc with me he finally understood. It's so sad this is nothing any of us ask for and a stigma is attached, but yet people drink and do drugs and they get all the sympathy and time off from work and some employers even pay for rehab. There should be a way to get some attention for this disease. There are a lot of ads on tv for meds for anxiety and stress which has broken the ice for that GAD. Keep your chin up. I find it helps to write my thoughts down.