!!I am getting the vaccine, I fully support people getting the vaccine!!


My partner has bad anxiety, not specifically towards doctors or medicine, but she has always been resistant to taking certain over the counter meds to treat mild things (doesn't like a lot of ibuprofen, stuff like that). She isn't antivaxx and has had other vaccines (she used to be adverse to the flu vaccine but isn't as much now). 

However, recently she's been talking to a family member who is extremely antivaxx and has told her the vaccine makes you infertile, kills you, not healthy for minorities, ect. She doesn't believe everything that she's been told, but between that and all of the other uncertainty this past year (lockdown has been tough), she says she's just not confident it's safe and is worried about long term effects. Her family in general has also not really taken the pandemic very seriously, gathering and spending time together without masks (without any deaths or even hospitalizations, so the pandemic seems "far" from them if that makes sense).

I'm trying to convince her otherwise, but me bringing up the topic every day won't help as it just causes more stress. She's stressed about making the decision not too, but the possible effects of getting it also stress her out. 

I am looking for help on how to approach this topic? It's very difficult for me, we haven't had any discussions like this before. I think it's very important to get, but I'm not marching her down to the hospital or going to try to make her feel bad about not getting it. She's her own adult and can make her own choices. But I do worry about her, and some other at risk family members.