I have a friend. She's in her 40s and for the last 5 years or so she's had quite debilitating anxiety. She's stuck in a job she really hates but she's single so can't afford to just quit as there's no second income or savings to fall back on temporarily. Her job doesn't help at all but the anxiety has been present before that.
In the past a quick conversation about things, an occasional bunch of flowers to cheer her up etc helped enough to keep her relatively 'even'. Now she's really spiralling. She's had CBT and medication but nothing helped so she won't consider that now. She's anxious and over analyses absolutely everything. She refuses to call in sick to work and won't go back to docs about it.
I want to help her but don't really know how. What can I do? She lives an hour away so I can't just pop in regularly as it would be a 2 hour round trip and I'm quite stressed myself at the moment.