Well dealing with anxiety alone is tricky, and takes a lot of effort, and time. Not sure why your against medication. But your best bet for dealing without medication is to educate yourself as much as possible about anxiety! Knowledge is your best defense ! Even if you do decide to take medication. Medication dose not cure anxiety! Just helps you function. Learning breathing techniques , and relaxation is a good idea. Great tools to use, you also have to change the way you think. Your thoughts play a big roll as well as stress, and worry. All the what ifs in your life has fueled your anxiety! Learn how anxiety works, and the process of anxiety. If anxiety makes a full circle then you have a panic attack. You need to intervene and not allow that to happen. Anxiety is not dangerous, and a lot of symptoms can come with it, and or sensations. You must recognize them as just symptoms, and nothing more! The feeling to use the bathroom is just a sensation, you need to tell yourself this. Do a test run with it! Use a poise pad just in case. But put yourself in a situation that you think would trigger this sensation. Tell yourself your not going to go into the bathroom because I really don't have to go! Then replace your thought to something else. Wait for some time to go by and see what happens. You could always use a poise pad for your graduation as well to feel more confident. No shame in that! Also you can ask your doctor for Ativan. That will calm you. It is to be used only as needed, and not a daily medication. People with fear to fly use it, as well as other phobias. But really the key is to educate yourself as much as possible, try some guided meditation as well. Look up honest guys on YouTube. You can also find other anxiety videos. They have helped me a lot as I don't want to be on medication for to long! I really want to get to the root of it all!

KNOW YOUR ANXIETY IN ORDER TO DEFEAT IT! .