I've been seeking therapy for anxiety/depression for 15 years and recently diagnosed with adhd. I'm working through adhd medication and keen to see what is related to that and what's left over.

It's become clear that my anxiety is still an issue. Some of it has a direct trigger - trying to prepare for a presentation and worried i won't be mentally agile enough to answer questions, while adhd symptoms are getting in the way of preparing in a logical and consistent way

I've probably got a whole cocktail of sources for my anxiety, from the adhd to being raised by the most stressed out person in the world.

I've always struggled to explain my anxiety to professionals and I think it's always come across as perfectionism. But I remember even as a kid having free floating anxiety in the evenings (it would keep me up at night even before I had specific things to be anxious about) and then I developed anxiety about WW3 and bombs being dropped, and the hole in the ozone layer.

I often think I develop anxiety first a lot of the time, and that then attaches to something I can't rationalise away.

Has anyone had any luck with vague anxiety and getting it treated? I've had so many different types of therapy by now and am over looking into my relationship with my mother and the kids who bullied me when I was 11. I've done all the insight and the CBT, the ACT and DBT. I still respond to situations with anxiety and have this sort of background ever present feeling that I manage and don't let get in the way of my goals. But it's always there...