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New dad
Hi, I’m after a bit of advice - don’t really know how to go about this so I’m here.
My wife has always struggled with guilt and worrying. She worries about serious things with work to irrational day to day matters. She admits herself that she is worrying over stuff that doesn’t make sense and can think rationally about it, but then a few hours / days later she goes back over it again and again and the cycle repeats. It totally consumes her to the point where she’s miserable all the time.
This has gone on for a few years but normally she’s got herself out of these ruts. Obviously 2020 has been a difficult year and the prolonged period of life not being “normal” has exacerbated the problem.
She has always been against getting help because it won’t look good in her profession but has recently admitted that she needs to talk to someone. She’s promised me she’ll go after Christmas but I’m concerned she’ll put it off again.
I know I can’t arrange anything for her, but how would I / she start going about things. I’m aware you can go to your GP but wondered if anyone could point me in any other directions? Apologies for being naive but fortunately this isn’t something we’ve had to deal with before.
Thanks in advance for anyone who gets in touch.
My wife has always struggled with guilt and worrying. She worries about serious things with work to irrational day to day matters. She admits herself that she is worrying over stuff that doesn’t make sense and can think rationally about it, but then a few hours / days later she goes back over it again and again and the cycle repeats. It totally consumes her to the point where she’s miserable all the time.
This has gone on for a few years but normally she’s got herself out of these ruts. Obviously 2020 has been a difficult year and the prolonged period of life not being “normal” has exacerbated the problem.
She has always been against getting help because it won’t look good in her profession but has recently admitted that she needs to talk to someone. She’s promised me she’ll go after Christmas but I’m concerned she’ll put it off again.
I know I can’t arrange anything for her, but how would I / she start going about things. I’m aware you can go to your GP but wondered if anyone could point me in any other directions? Apologies for being naive but fortunately this isn’t something we’ve had to deal with before.
Thanks in advance for anyone who gets in touch.