It is typically family members who motivate loved ones to enter treatment for health conditions. Unlike physical health conditions, motivating someone to accept help for a behavioral health condition like an eating disorder, addiction, and gambling among to others, can be a tough sell. Denial interferes with rational arguments to get help. Threatening and badgering are rarely successful and can make problems worse. Avoiding these behaviors is so important that it is worth getting counseling to help stop it. Untreated behavioral health conditions produce crises that result in brief awareness of the need to get help. Fright, embarrassment, arrest, an acute medical incident, or even a close call may create these short windows of opportunity. At these moments, acceptance of help is most likely. Move quickly when crises appears and repeat that intervention step until you succeed.