Dear maloret:
My insight and suggestions regarding anxiety, all stemming from my personal experience with anxiety, experience that is long and hard:
1) Pay attention to how you are breathing right now: pay attention if you are holding your breath. Breathe slowly and fully, expanding your belly, again and again. This will calm you.
2) Pay attention to your muscles: are any of them tight? relax all your muscles. this will calm you.
3) When you exercise, so each move mindfully, place your attention IN the muscles you are tightening and those you are relaxing- same with stretching, FEEL your body. Placing our attention inside our body does wonders (it is being hijacked by that overly thinking brain, detached from the body that feeds anxiety).
4) Cam, read or continue to read about thought substitution, correcting distorted thoughts or potentially distorted thoughts that cause your anxiety. examples of such thoughts are: “I am responsible for another feeling badly or maybe feeling badly: it must have been something i said or did not say, something i did or did not do, an expression on my face, etc (Taking on responsiblity you don’t actually have, and “personalizing”- making things that are not about you- be about you).

I hope you are reading this even though it’s been a while since you posted this. I just got to read it for the first time. If you like anything I wrote, let me know and I can write you more.
Take Care:
anita