Awe believe me I feel your pain. I still have bouts of extreme anxiety but I just try to hold on and get through it. My doctor told me just to keep in mind that you know at some point it will pass. It’s great that you are trying to do the natural way instead of taking more drugs. That’s what I did. Drugs and alcohol feed the GABA part of the brain is what my doc said, so taking GABA is probably helpful. A great app for meditation that is mostly free is “Insight Timer”. I use that when I wake up in the middle of the night and it helps me go back to sleep many times. Jason Stephenson is really good. Good luck to you on your journey. You can do it. And yes, your doctor was definitely wrong with the 2 week time frame!!!