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My sister has a lot of opposite,uninterrupted thoughts coming to her mind.She has lots of fear out of which the one that bothers her most is the fear of ending up alone as she is the youngest of us all.She feels due to her borderline peeosnality disorder she might not be liked by anyone and that she migjt not be able to spend proper life routine due to her sociophobia as well.She refuses to see a psychiatrist and feels she can help herself using DBT etc.She is pursuing M.A Psychology but I see her not being able to stick to any routine
She doe schekcing and counting also to manage her anxiety
I wanna take her to psychiateist but how do I convince her.She is refuisng it and gets angry if I mention that.plz help
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Hey there,
Heard about your history of the problems your sister has been facing for years.
I must tell you that psychiatrist have to take a detailed psychiatric history and MSE to come to a diagnosis and manage accordingly.
Was she under the care of a mental health professional?
Who diagnosed her as a case of Borderline personality disorders?
She may be suffering from obsessive compulsive spectrum disorder with another psychiatric disorder.
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She is trying to treat herself by psychological interventions but without any fruitful results.
She definitely needs the care from a psychiatrist.
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Help from your family members and friends is to be needed to convince her to go for the psychiatric care from a mental health professional.
Medications and psychological interventions from the trained professionals is what she needs now.
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