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I Am Seeking For A Psychiatrist To Give Counseling. Can Online Doctor Help Me?
hi.... am seeking for a best psychiatrist to give counseling for my mother-in-law. she is 45 years old. she always fights with my father-in-law for silly reason. This has been started from their marriage itself. my fater-in-law s family is a big family.he has 5 siblings. my mother-in-law always consider them as their enemies. but the thing is basically they are good people and they are not troublesome. she always imagine that each and every bad thing happened to their family is only because of his relatives.my father-in-law was suffering by this for the past 25 years. he tried to take her to counseling. but she refused. could any suggest any solution
Sun, 23 Jan 2011
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Talking therapies like couple therapy or Inter personal therapy or CBT are best used in this kind of situation but would work only if the concerned parties are both interested.
If you mother in law is not able to/willing to go for the talking therapies, then an assessment by a psychiatrist to see if there is any scope for the use of medication is the alternative.
Usually, people like this will need lot of gentle and consistent persuasion to even come to the psychiatrist and the family will need to play the role of silent and unbiased mediator, which is easier said than done.
Good Luck
Talking therapies like couple therapy or Inter personal therapy or CBT are best used in this kind of situation but would work only if the concerned parties are both interested.
If you mother in law is not able to/willing to go for the talking therapies, then an assessment by a psychiatrist to see if there is any scope for the use of medication is the alternative.
Usually, people like this will need lot of gentle and consistent persuasion to even come to the psychiatrist and the family will need to play the role of silent and unbiased mediator, which is easier said than done.
Good Luck
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