Hey there! My anxiety was horrible when I first got clean, and although it is a normal part of early sobriety to experience a lot of anxiety, sometimes there is something else going on besides just drug or alcohol addiction.
I got a full psych. evaluation and found out that besides being a drug addict I had bipolar type 2 disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and depression. I mention this because while anxiety and depression is a normal part of early sobriety, my anxiety went deeper then just newly being sober and without the proper medication and counseling that anxiety would not have subsided by just "sticking it out".