need help for my sister?

Question

My sister (an adult) is constantly obsessed and worried about her health. She will pass out at doctors office and cannot even see a gynecologist without becoming very ill. She consumed with thought about possibly having cancer (which isn't really warranted) She doesn't take madeicine that she doesn't need or anything like a hypocondriac, or thinks she has diseases that she doesn't have, she'll just worry like crazy about it. She just finally saw a psychiatrist/psychologist who wants to prescribe her something for it, but she's scared that it will affect her in a bad way. I can't remember what the med. is though. Have any of you experienced this and have been put on medicine to help you be less obsessive? Here doctor also told her to take Benadryl to calm herself down today. If you have any experience or advice that might her her with this problem, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thank you!

Answer 1

you are just going to have to convince her that she needs to go and see a doc so that she can stop worrying. Tell her that you will be there the whole time. If that doesn't work then you have to sedate her with a heavy tranquilizer or use some cloroform.jk
Just be really supportive the only way she will stop worrying is if she goes and finds the answer to her question.

Answer 2

Your sister has a bad case of anxiety. She suffers from irrational fears. I would say a tranquilizer to calm her when she is overwhelmed with fear and intensive therapy is what will help. Your sister has some BIG issues she needs to confront. So a psychologist/therapist would be the way to go. Her fear goes deeper than just being afraid she is sick.

Answer 3

Sell sister $5 and catfish sandwich, Dude. Mok Luk Dow. Stockton forever. Mongo!

Answer 4

A man goes to a shop, picks up a beautiful cup and says "my god this cup is so beautiful" and suddenly the cup starts talking to the man. The cup starts saying "O man, I am beautiful right now, but what was the state of my being before the pot-maker made me a beautiful pot?

Before I was sheer mud and the pot-maker pulled me out of the mud from the mother earth and I felt why that pot-maker is so cruel, he has separated me from mother earth. I felt a tremendous pain. And the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me and churned me, when I was churned I felt so giddy, so painful, so stressful, I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me into a oven and heated me up, I felt completely burnt. There was tremendous pain and I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait."

Then he poured hot paint on me and I felt the fume and the pain, I again asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then again he put me into an oven and heated it to make me more strong, I felt life is so painful hence pleaded the pot-maker and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." And after that the pot-maker took me to the mirror and said, "Now look at yourself". And surprisingly I found myself so beautiful.

When god gives us lot of trouble, it appears god is very cruel but we need patience and we have to wait. When bad things happen to good people, they become better and not bitter.

So all difficulties are part of a cosmic design to make us really beautiful. We need patience, we need understanding, we need the commitment to go through in a very calm and wise way. So all difficulties are not to tumble us but to humble us.

With this understanding, let us not be against difficulty. Understand difficulty is a part of a purifying process. A purifying process at present which we cannot understand and hence we need faith and we need trust.

Let us understand how to handle stress with this background. You can be affected by stress from two angles. There is an internal stress and there is an external stress. Nobody can avoid stress; one has to only manage stress. Managing stress can be internal and also external.

The internal stress is; your thoughts can create stress, your values can create stress, and your beliefs can create stress, meaning thereby your stress is coming from your mind more from the outer world. Many people suffer not from heart attack - they suffer from thought-attack.

For example, when somebody says you are an idiot, we get so hurt, we get so victimised. My boss has called me an idiot and I am feeling tremendous pain. Now where does this stress come from? If my boss has called me an idiot, I have to ask myself "am I an idiot"?

If I am an idiot nothing to be upset about; and if I am not an idiot, then also nothing to be upset about! It is the perception of the boss. But why do we suffer from that stress? I suffer not because my boss has called me an idiot but because of the thought-attack.

I may say the boss has called me an idiot; therefore I am suffering? It is true that the words are unpleasant. But what hurts is the interpretation of the unpleasant word. The thought in me interprets. That is pain and therefore it becomes pain. Much of our stress is our mind interpreting it as pain. So we suffer from thought-attack more than heart attack.