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As I was growing up, I had to watch my dad go through "spells" where he became physically ill and needed to lie down. He had lots of different symptoms that went with it, and was eventually diagnosed as having anxiety and had to start taking meds for it. My mother, to this day, swears it's all in his head. There were times when she would get angry and scream at him b/c she didn't think there was anything really wrong with him -- she thought he didn't want to work/mow the lawn/whatever and mentally forced himself to become ill.
I know now that it's not just in his head, as I've experienced some of the things he was experiencing when he was having these spells. I haven't been diagnosed w/ any sort of anxiety disorder as of yet, and lately things have been okay, but I think I sort of know what my father was going through.
It's just so incredulous to me that someone could deny that someone they love is truly ill.
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