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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The way you're most likely to get her in front of a therapist is to start going to therapy yourself and then to ask her to come to help YOU. [/quote]

I don't think she'd ever agree to go.  I've had a couple work acquaintances that are married to therapists, and when we occasionally have to socialize, she will avoid them even in a social setting.  I'm sure medications will help - it's convincing her she needs the help and will feel better after getting it.  The only way I can think of manipulating it  so she would go is if I told her it was affecting the kids, which it is, but then she'll feel guilty about impacting the kids, which will increase the stress, and so on.[/quote]

Another PP here- I think it sounds like denial. She is probably worried that she has inherited her family's mental health issues and is ignoring red flags. You didn't mention what her mother and sister were hospitalized for, but if it was anxiety, it probably got "that bad" because it wasn't treated.

I look at generalized anxiety more as a mental health condition rather than a mental illness. It doesn't cause psychosis or delusions- but interferes with healthy functioning, relationships and happiness. Eventually, it can lead to clinical depression which is very serious and can make a person wish they were no longer alive.

I think if it is affecting the kids, you should say that- it's not manipulative if it's true. Anxiety at this level doesn't usually go away on its own and it can feel manageable, but often it's a lifetime condition that ebbs and flows and needs chronic treatment and management. [/quote]

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