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[quote=Anonymous][quote]In my experience, the people who cannot share basic info have trust and other serious issues (the PP is one example), or are attention-seekers, like you suspect your SIL is.
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Or they've dealt with exceptionally judgmental friends and family over their lives and become conditioned not to say anything.

[quote]I'm going through a lot right now. I have cardiac and other symptoms that are making me completely unable to work, and not quite able to care for my kids, and it's been challenging to identify the cause and treat it. Some days I feel I'm going crazy. 
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I am sorry for what you are going through, genuinely. But don't you think that you may feel differently if people started assuming your symptoms were something akin to fibromyalgia or long COVID and they consider those conditions fake and that you really are lazy and don't want to work, and all of your appointments are attention seeking, etc...? In that case, maybe you wouldn't open up to others, right?

[quote]But I've told the people I'm closest to, obviously. If I had a sibling, that would include the sibling.
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I don't have a sibling either, and would also like to think that we'd be close, but there's lots of variation in sibling relationships, and sometimes siblings are not among the closest people.

[quote]So your husband has no choice but to leave her alone. He should remind her to get a complete physical at the doctor's, consult specialists if need be, and to rule out anything medical before she explores psychiatric causes like depression and anxiety. That way, she will know she can't bluff him, and the advice is good anyway.
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That's strange advice. Why would she be trying to "bluff" him? How would that work, is she supposed to disclose her medical results and then let him know if she gets a referral for therapy and let him know about any diagnosis? If she's lying, she's obviously not going to disclose all of that, and if she's telling the truth and just a private person, she's also not going to do that.[/quote]

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