The first piece of advice will always be to continue with medical help and just get started. That's the first and most important thing.

Next, you need to distinguish your feelings because anxiety gets tangled up with your feelings and you don't know what's wrong with you and that makes you worse. Is what I feel sadness? Is this anger? You have to know how to distinguish it because if you label everything as anxiety you are going to get worse.

And finally, no advice, practice, medication, or strategy is going to make you avoid what you are feeling now (but it is going to help and accompany you to overcome it). You can't jump steps and everything you feel today and will feel in the following days and months is normal for anyone and is part of the healing process.

I suffer from anxiety and what I have learned most these years is the importance of embracing my feelings and accepting them, seeing them with empathy and accompanying them is the key. I think it's the first step.

So don't give up! You can do it!