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Thanks for the advice. The person in question is not just a colleague but also a friend, and has expressed frustration with this specific issue multiple times to me. She is skeptical about suggestions like meditation, self-analysis, coaching etc. She has accepted other suggestions that are more technical in nature.

I thought that hearing what things others have done might encourage her to try some of those things. They may be more credible to her because they are being suggested by people who have been through what she does.

The "unwilling to take advice" was an overstatement on my part. At some point, though, I have to butt out, and this question on HN was in a way my last attempt to help.