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I'll second CBT, it helped me a lot. My therapist started with identifying my "core beliefs" like "worrying* helps me avoid bad things" and "worrying makes me better at my job" and then through some structured routines helped me change or event disregard them. I'm very analytical and she really helped show the illogical nature of all the time I spent worrying.
That said I first needed a low dose zoloft prescription to even be willing to book the therapy, but I've since weened off it.
*specifically hypothetical worries, i.e. "what if"