Comments on: Helping a Family Member with an Anxiety Disorder http://anxietypanichealth.com/2008/08/05/helping-a-family-member-with-an-anxiety-disorder/ Living with Health, Wellness and Wholeness Wed, 16 May 2012 17:30:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Rick Conte http://anxietypanichealth.com/2008/08/05/helping-a-family-member-with-an-anxiety-disorder/comment-page-1/#comment-26244 Rick Conte Sun, 13 May 2012 23:00:31 +0000 http://anxietypanichealth.com/?p=205#comment-26244 Great article but how do you handle a spouse that feels that she does not have a problem? Any suggestions that she has an anxiety disorder is met with very defensive tirades and accusations that she is not the problem. It has been very clear for years that she has multiple anxiety issues and probably manic depression. We have four small children and she can be vicious towards me and the kids. If I even make the slightest observation or suggestion, I had better be prepared to pay for my actions. She will lecture me and the kids and tell us how we make her life miserable and she does all the work in our family. I have been "doing the right thing" for years trying to accommodate her to try and give the kids a normal childhood. I can continue this but it is difficult. I guess the purpose of writing this is to ask how do you convince someone they have a problem and should seek profssional help? Great article but how do you handle a spouse that feels that she does not have a problem? Any suggestions that she has an anxiety disorder is met with very defensive tirades and accusations that she is not the problem. It has been very clear for years that she has multiple anxiety issues and probably manic depression. We have four small children and she can be vicious towards me and the kids. If I even make the slightest observation or suggestion, I had better be prepared to pay for my actions. She will lecture me and the kids and tell us how we make her life miserable and she does all the work in our family.

I have been “doing the right thing” for years trying to accommodate her to try and give the kids a normal childhood. I can continue this but it is difficult.

I guess the purpose of writing this is to ask how do you convince someone they have a problem and should seek profssional help?

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