How I'm dealing with anxiety.

[Im-Suffering]

This person is a product of conditioning (not the 'genes' as she would suppose). Because most of the beliefs came from early childhood they have been forgotten. Yet they control her reality. There was a great influence from the women in the family, the mother, her (mothers) sister, and the grandmother to whom share this generational anxiety. One has passed to the next like a baton. It is not genetic or 'hereditery' but conditioning and value judgments about reality that were taught starting before the great grandmother.

If this realization is not made, she will pass this down further through time to her children. She is not 'cured' until the string is cut (the belief in mental illness is still within her). The psychology course was a trigger in this realization, and a way to get some understanding, which she has done, to end the cycle of mental illness (in her terms). But that will only come from a deep personal assessment/examination finding the connections in thought patterns within the dynamics (interactions, behaviours, beliefs) of the family as a whole.

If you will, she would have to 'study' herself within her family, as sort of a case study you see. Looking at the whole unit throughout the years from an outside neutral perspective.

The world is simply the way it is because people do not want to do this 'work' and so from one generation to the next you have unresolved problems. Resolving themselves to this 'fate' which is nothing more than a strong or 'core' belief.