As someone who spent the better part of my lifetime treating symptoms and not the condition, I can report that for me, what @Sawbones, @TwiceHorn and @Gil Bang have said is good advice. Xanax puts a bandage over a laceration that needs stitches, and it hurts like hell when you remove that bandage....only to find the laceration is still there.
Figuring out the source of the anxiety, and coming up with tools to mitigate it is a long term and healthy solution. Xanax may be appropriate in certain circumstances, but one should tread carefully there and have a legitimate respect (bordering on fear) for the negative side effects.
Best of luck to you. Work with a pro who's first inclination is to look at causation and solutions, with medication being a tool of last resort.
(****And, be brutally honest with them when you talk about what's up. Don't hide anything. They can't do their work if they don't have all of the information****)