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If she's resistant to getting help, here's what you do. Help her to see that the anxiety attacks and everything else is coming from inside her. There's no "anxiety attack air" floating around in the world that settles on her occasionally. That's getting generated from inside her mind and body. That's not to say they're not real or that she's making them up--they're very real. It's just that the source of them is inside her, and is in the complex interplay and feedback systems between her cognitive habits and her nervous and endocrine systems. This is a medical situation, for which medical solutions are appropriate.
It also doesn't mean anything about her that she has this particular medical situation. Millions and millions of good, functional people deal with what she's dealing with. There's nothing at all unusual about it, and the doctor that she goes to will have seen LOTS of cases just like this and will know EXACTLY how to help.
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