The medications are wonderful these days, but they aren’t magical.
Think of it like a painkiller for a serious injury. It blocks you feeling the pain, but the underlying injury still needs dealing with. Especially if you’re still in the situation that caused the injury (say, being in a sports team, to extend the analogy).
Medication for anxiety sometimes takes a few tries to find the right one for you. You may need different classes of drugs, different dosages, and different lead times to assess if they’re working. Everyone’s brain chemistry is not the same. Therapy helps enormously through this period.
It’s is certainly worth exploring which meds would help, even a slight relief in your symptoms can really make a difference to your day. I’m afraid there’s no getting around the fact that the meds are just part of the plan. Talk therapy, exercise, diet, change in work or family circumstances, meditation/mindfulness and relationship counselling almost always help too.
Where I live, a GP wouldn’t prescribe anti-anxiety pills without some evidence that I was working on the underlying factors.
Why doom yourself to a lifetime of medication (the cost, doctor visits, the side effects, the stigma) rather than help your mind and body recover and create resilience you can use for the rest of your days?
Good luck. Once you find the right meds, the idea of doing ‘inner work’ won’t feel so overwhelming.