Yikes, I just re-read my post #54 and it sure seems snotty. 
That was not the intent - I shouldn’t post after 8:00 p.m.
Anyway, I would encourage anyone dealing with GAD to take a moment and look up EMDR therapy. There is plenty of hard data supporting it’s effectiveness. It really does feel very silly the first time you go thru a session. However I can vouch for the approach alleviating the level of distress QUICKLY and giving you the ability to access that calming sense easily. It links ‘what you know to be true’ to that part of your memory and response which you ‘know’ is out of bounds. It allows you to reprocess the event or situation which initially caused you to get stuck in the anxiety. The result is the next time you respond to a situation, which used to be linked to that old ‘wrong’ processing circuitry, it now links to a more appropriate response.
It is used by law enforcement and first responders to deal with PTSD. Anxiety is a form of - or can become - PTSD.
Anxiety sucks. Hang in there…