Our mum is almost 80 & has chronic anxiety about almost everything. She's had councilling, anti depressants. She's not got onset dementia. I sympathise, but it's becoming suffocating and controlling of us really. She won't even try. It's things like if you don't answer the phone/text messages immediately she's constantly phoning until she gets an answer, ringing everyone else in the family to see if they know where the person is. We do a lot for her, so it's not like she's suffering from a lack of attention. Eg, i left her house tonight & texted half an hour later to say I was home. That's fair enough. She rang me to ask if I knew what my sister was doing, on her last night of her holiday, as she couldn't get hold of her. In that 30 minutes I'd travelled home she'd rang sister, her husband about 6 times each & my husband. They were in the hot tub, that's all! I had to tell her off & tell her to let them just enjoy the last night of their holiday without constantly phoning. Tomorrow morning she'll be checking in on them every half hour from about 8am to make sure they're up & ready to be out of the lodge on time. This is another obsession. It's driving us mad, anything she can't control but is obsessed about she's constantly phoning, getting churned up because of things that haven't even happened. I sound so unsympathetic, but the constant harassment. is driving us up the wall. How do you deal with it? If we said to her either of our phones will be off for a certain amount of time she'll sit there all churned up until the phone is on again, in case some tragedy has occurred in the meantime.