Just a few tips that will enable you to help your loved one:
- Educate yourself about illness anxiety. You can’t help yourself if you don’t know for sure what you are fighting with.
- Talk and listen. It shouldn’t be a topic to avoid. You may need to establish time limits on when, how often, or for how long the two of you will talk about illness anxiety.
- Encourage their participation in treatment, as it’s a real problem that requires treatment.
Be attentive not to over help. Don’t feed into their anxiety by “checking” everything for them.
Rostyslav Shemechko is always ready to help both of you. Call 647-866-9061.
