Same here. Learning how to breathe properly and how to relax the mind and body helps so much. I wish all young children were taught these skills at a very early age. It would help them all of their lives. I didn't have much help from therapies or medications. I've been in one state of anxiety or the other all of my life. I was born anxious although mostly others called me shy or weird or different or whatever.

One of the things that I think helped me the most was to actually learn about the physical reaction by the body in times of stress. I mean the fight or flight response. Learning as much as I could about that process has allowed me to recognize when my usual anxious state is about to go over the edge into panic.

Of course, that doesn't always happen and I notice the signs too late and bam.

I must say too that like so many other conditions, anxiety disorders including OCD are very misunderstood by the majority of people who have never experienced them.