This isn't a failure on your part. Every one of these approaches has something real to offer. They all share the same limitation.
Most anxiety treatments aim to manage symptoms or reduce discomfort. That's useful. But it's like cutting branches off a weed instead of pulling the root. The symptoms keep coming back — because the pattern that creates them hasn't changed.
Anxiety is sustained by the fear of anxiety. The fear of the next panic attack keeps the nervous system on high alert — which creates more sensations — which creates more fear. It's a loop.
Breaking that loop requires more than techniques. It requires genuinely understanding what anxiety is, why it keeps appearing, and what the fear of it is actually doing. When that understanding arrives — the loop loses its fuel.
You haven't failed. The methods failed — because they weren't addressing the root. That's not the same thing.
The next section looks at the common misconceptions — and what's actually true.