General Anxiety Disorder

I don't think I have ever mentioned this to many of you before, but I was diagnosed with anxiety about a year ago or so. Anxiety has really sucked for me. I have had panic attacks where I felt like I was dying. I have had moments of anxiousness and expecting negative events to happen for no apparent reason. I have insomniac behaviors at many times. The scariest thing I go through is the fact that I am overly stress and can't handle it at all. I get stressed in situations a person should not get stressed in, My stress leads to sometimes angry outbursts, a lot of tears and thoughts that I am crazy and losing control of my life. My doctor put me on Lexapro but it's stopped being effective besides the fact that I don't like taking medication I don't even take cold medicine. Lately I've been trying natural remedies for it, like exercise and yoga. I am also going to start talking to a counselor, talking to a professional might help me learn to cope with my anxiety. I hate having anxiety and I just want it to go away. I don't know if I have always had anxiety or not.......I never noticed it before until I started having panic attacks within the past 2 years. I am hoping with all the new things I am trying combined with possibly the old I can get past all these feelings and start to feel better.