So my best friend has always struggled with anxiety but ever since the pandemic her anxiety has been off the charts. She is so incredibly scared of Covid that I have not seen her in person since the pandemic started. If she has to go anywhere, like to the store, she tests herself the next day. I’ve tried a million times to tell her that she is not going to pop positive the next day but she says she “has to”. She has spent thousands on testing. She will go get tested at the drive-in sites about once a week too. She texts me constantly about it and how she thinks she was “exposed” somewhere or by her mom and dad who she lives with. 99% of our conversations are about Covid and about how scared she is to catch it. I’ve tried saying she is vaxxed and boosted and will be fine if she catches it but she says that’s not true. When I had Covid a few weeks ago she honestly didn’t even care; she just kept saying “my time is coming soon”. She sees both a therapist and a psychiatrist and is even on medication but it’s not helping at all. If anything her therapist continues to validate her behavior and tells her that her anxiety is valid and everyone should be scared of the virus. She has been my best friend for 15 years but I don’t know how much more I can take. It is so bad that about a month ago she agreed to watch her 8 year old niece and when her niece sneezed in the house, she made her niece sit outside alone with an iPad for 5 hours until her mom came and got her. She says she wants the government to go door to door and forcibly vaccinate people. It’s just crazy. What the hell can I do?