antidepressant meds are popular for anxiety and can help a lot
almost every question re an antidepressant med here mentions one of the still patented and therefore expensive ones.
and yet its generally accepted that the older generic ones work just as well, but of course the drug companies huge sales staffs arent promoting them as they are much less profitable

docs nearly always prescribe the highly advertised and expensive antidepressants
several leading psychiatrists prescribe generic prozac as their antidepressant of first choice......

one psych says he never prescribes a new antidepressant until its been available for 12 months, as problems do show up sometimes early on