I personally found that talk therapy was more useful for coping mechanisms, rather than ease the anxiety. Now, that being said, she did have me get a hr watch, this way here I was able to "see" rather than feel what my heart was doing, and if it was a POTS anxiety (hr would shoot through the roof) or if it was just normal anxiety. This did help. As for marijuana, I found it made my anxiety worse... Always worried about what others thought..."So just because she gets anxious, she is now a druggie.....hooked on pot, not like she has enough pills, but now she smokes dope all day "........lol I have a tough family. Had to move 2 hours away to finally be sane...lol I also learned from being in the hospital....we are fortunate. We are alive. Yes days can be cruddy. But hey we woke up and took a breath. OCD, Anxiety and POTS....the pity card came out often for myself, some days it still does. I had to take a new outlook on life. Not to care what others thought. I had to place my health and happiness first. It's hard to do. Trust me, there are still days that I feel like I have let someone down,or hurt feelings, Or I am just failure! but then I look at myself (really in a mirror) and remind myself that I have been less symptomatic since I let go of all the crud and to keep going. If ever you wanna pm me, please do. I can always listen or rather read ; )