That, or you're mistaking another emotion for anxiety. Like for me, I have a hard time distinguishing between anxiety and impatience. I'm better at it now, but before, I'd be waiting for a call or a text or for something to happen... and I'd think I was just feeling anxious... when actually it was just me being impatient, and all I had to do was have a little bit of understanding that I just needed to give things time - not everything can always be about instant gratification.
I agree with what neversickanymore is saying... that anxiety is something that's there to tell you that something in your life needs to change. I used to have THE WORST anxiety ever and thought I would never be able to manage it without benzos or opiates. I was never addicted to benzos, but I did have a prescription for them at one point, and whenever I'd have a bad anxiety attack I'd take one under the false assumption that there was no other way to manage the symptoms. So it's not much of a surprise that my anxiety never went away, I was just masking it. That is until I stopped using benzos, and subsequently opiates (the reason I stopped my benzo script... didn't "need" them anymore once heroin entered the picture), to manage my anxiety and started getting to the root of WHAT was making me anxious.
The answer isn't always apparent, but I can pretty much guarantee you that there is an underlying cause. The nice thing about anxiety is that even though it makes you feel out of control, in reality you actually have way more control over it than you think
So my best advice would be to examine each area of your life carefully and pay VERY close attention to anything that makes you feel uncomfortable. Cuz once you can identify that, you can start taking steps to either fix it, make it better, or simply accept it, depending on the situation.
Anyway, this week keeps getting better and better. I have been noticing a huge amount of synchronicity in my life this week, like so much that it's almost ridiculous lol. And it's all happening in an area of my life that I've been putting A LOT of dedication and intention into... so... law of attraction ftw, no joke haha that shit is real!!
.. so good to see you.. no really
Thanks so much for posting the study
EDIT: I dont point this out to attack the article or the study.. its findings are amazing and dont hinge on this incorrect statement so just to point a little mistake in the article so when we talk about this we know.. "We all learned this in DARE class. About the rats in a cage who can self-administer morphine who get addicted to the stuff, and then just hit that lever until they die." The thing they are referring to was an experiment where an electrode was attached to a rats brain and every time the rat pushed on a lever it received a electric stimulation to the pleasure center and was not self administering morphine.. It produced and effect more similar to a very strong stimulant rush.. and yeah the rats literally pushed the lever two time a second ignoring their babies, food, and water until many died of exhaustion.
I guess by generalized I was referring to pretty much constant anxiety.. compared to more of a specific anxiety like social anxiety.. also since im off the benzos I have significantly less anxiety but so many things have changed with me.. the drugs, professions, how I think and percieve life, how much less seriously I take life.. But i also noticed in the good things about getting off drugs thread that allot of people list significantly less anxiety.. kinda funny that one of the main reasons allot of us thought we liked drugs and we all have so much less off the drugs.. wonder if when we take the benzos if the gaba system has tolerance just like the dopamine system just allot less pronounced.. thus after we take the benzos if it just doesn't increase or anxiety up to compensate for the drug and thus make us more anxious all the time..
Your system will return to normal after a bit.. kicking benzos Is hard rite.. your doing great Hero
And thanks nsa The support has been unbelievably helpful through all this, from you and from everyone . I wouldn't be able to do this alone. 
). But seriously! Be strong I know that feeling of an upcoming event that will possibly involve a drug, especially a DOC and a setting for that DOC. Just be strong. I will be here to talk that night if you need it. Anything to get you through it! Keep it going strong buddy.
see the dark side!
Thanks alien
