What you're suffering is fear, not anxiety. The reason I say this is that you have a real reason to be concerned -- you've got pain probably connected to your surgery. Either it never healed properly, the surgery wasn't done correctly, or it didn't actually solve the problem. There might be a forum on here that applied more directly to crohn's disease. This disorder falls into a larger category of diseases that are diagnosed by symptoms, not causes, the main one being inflammation in the digestive tract. The main treatments are all designed to lessen this inflammation. Nobody knows for sure what causes it and nobody has a cure that science accepts as proven. The medical establishment will do their thing, which is to give you drugs that reduce inflammation but also cause other problems that in the long run often end up increasing inflammation while temporarily decreasing it. Surgery is one of those things, and it doesn't cure any of these diseases. It just temporarily diminishes the symptoms, assuming the surgery is successful and your body is able to recover -- remember, you already had a problem controlling inflammation in that area, and surgery causes inflammation which you might also not be able to control. Doctors can only do what they can do. If that isn't working, you need to try something else, and usually that drives people to health food stores and natural medicine, where you have centuries of use of some things, some things that are pretty new and we know little about, and no great studies because you can't patent anything natural so the money for really good research isn't there. Still, the natural approach seems to be what's left for you, as I'm guessing before that surgery, or at least I hope this is the case, you were given the usual medications and advice on what to avoid eating to reduce stress on the digestive tract. Natural medicine will go further, telling you to avoid all foods having evidence that some people suffer inflammation from them. The most common suspects are wheat and dairy, with the next two being soy and corn. They'll tell you to reduce red meat intake because it's hard to digest. Too much fiber can cause aggravation, too little can also do that, so you need to find the happy medium that allows you to have the most comfortable bowel movements. Some natural medicines are known to reduce digestive problems in some people, such as bifido bacteria, fermented foods such as sauerkraut and pickles that act as prebiotics, or food for probiotics, which regulate digestive health. So while this disease has no known cure, if you've exhausted the medical community and what they do, try a different part of the medical community and see what they have to offer. If you can find a physician who practices integrated medicine, it might just benefit you. A holistic nutritionist might give you more time than any doctor will to really try some different dietary approaches. Now, you also say you're a long-time user of ssris, so you do apparently have mental issues, and antidepressants are known to have as a common side effect digestive problems. They tend to interfere with magnesium absorption, which is essential for digestive health. They interfere with the natural use of serotonin, which is mostly in the digestive system, not the brain. Therapy might be helpful to teach you some relaxation techniques and talk it out some, but it's hard to see how moving on to another class of drugs that don't address your problem will help in the long run. Now, there are people who suffer digestive problems because of anxiety, but that didn't happen in your case. The fear followed the lack of success in your treatment. That messes with everyone, and is the largest reason for our current opioid problem -- failed medical procedures. So yeah, you have anxiety, but it's about something real. Tamping down that anxiety will only make you feel better. But it still won't cut down on the inflammation in your digestive system. There are some natural remedies that are relaxants that do that, such as chamomile, so again, there is another form of medicine out there that's a lot older than the one you've tried so far. Because of this long history of mental distress that led you to use meds to treat it, again, anxiety can cause all sorts of digestive problems and the drugs used to treat it can make those problems occur or make them worse. I had digestive problems before I got my anxiety disorder full-bore, and used the usual acid suppressants, but when I started on antidepressants, by then I was working in the natural foods biz and have been using that world to treat stomach problems since, mostly. They avoid the long-term ill effects of the drugs used by docs to treat digestive problems. You've got to keep dealing with that long-term mental problem, but you have a diagnosed physiological problem. Whatever caused it, again, if at first you don't succeed in fixing it, try a different form of practitioner and see if you do better.