Hi everyone, This is my first time posting on this sub so please excuse my poor description. I’m a 21 year old college student currently diagnosed with General anxiety disorder. I’ve been dealing with severe anxiety and paranoia for most of my life now, mainly health and social anxiety. This makes me often worry that I having some serious disease like cancer or heart failure. I know it’s all just in my head but it’s such nagging fear that makes it hard to think straight at times.I also get very anxious in social situations such as parties or gatherings with a lot of people. Of course I have brought up all these issues with my psychiatrist ,but each time all he does is wright up a script for a different antidepressant. I never actually take them because im scared of taking any kind of antidepressant for several reasons I won’t go into. Long story short, as a kid I was basically fed like 3-4 antidepressants a day like they were fucking candy without a say in the matter. They pretty much made me feel like a zombie for the greater portion of my childhood along with causing several other negative side effects such as frequent migraines and loss of appetite. 
I definitely feel better now since I’ve stopped taking them years ago but still the anxiety remains just a strong as before. It’s really discouraging knowing that there are other anxiety medications out there other than antidepressants that could help me, but my docter isn’t flexible to the idea of trying different options.