Asymptomatic fear of AIDS?

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The difference between acrophobia and AIDS, presumably this is one of the most concerned problems of many patients with acrophobia. Many STD / AIDS phobia patients are not clear about the difference between AIDS and acrophobia. For a while, they are confused about the window period of AIDS, and for a while, they are confused about how to eliminate the symptoms of acrophobia; One is the early symptoms of AIDS tangled sensitive, one will ask what symptoms of acrophobia, what symptoms will cause. Of course, a lot of phobic friends also gradually know that they are not HIV infected, and their emotions tend to be stable, but the seven or nine mistakes of fear of AIDS make their understanding still very extreme. In order to get rid of fear, patients with phobia always like to explore what the specific high-risk behaviors mean, and they will also cross the boundary to the incubation period of AIDS. Asymptomatic fear of AIDS? I'd like to share my views with you.

Asymptomatic fear of AIDS?

(1) Obsessive compulsive symptoms include some AIDS phobic people, who repeatedly think about the symptoms of AIDS or some behaviors that have occurred - obsessive thinking, repeatedly check the suspicious physical signs (such as lymphadenectasis) - compulsive actions, and even ponder over some details that ordinary people do not care about, thinking that they may be infected with AIDS. A college student, lured by others, had sex with a young lady in a hair salon. After that, he repeatedly reviewed every detail and checked every suspicious damage on his skin and mucous membrane, for fear that the young lady would infect him with AIDS. After seeing the AIDS related knowledge, he would take off his clothes every day, look and feel all over his body. Every red dot on his skin was suspected to be a rash in the early stage of AIDS, and every lump on his body was mistakenly regarded as the swollen lymph node of AIDS. Although after many tests ruled out the possibility of HIV infection, but he has become cautious everywhere, always afraid of being infected with AIDS. He washes his hands repeatedly every day, wears a mask and gloves when he goes out in summer, takes a bath after contacting others, and even disinfects his whole body... In fact, sometimes he knows it's unnecessary, but he can't get rid of it. This kind of obsessive-compulsive symptoms can cause him long-term insomnia, inattention, loss of interest and confidence in work and life, and seriously affect his life and study.

(2) Hypochondriac symptoms AIDS hypochondriac symptoms often have the personality characteristics of excessive obstinacy, excessive precision and excessive persistence. They often mistakenly regard some autonomic nervous symptoms caused by psychological fear as the symptoms of AIDS. After each visit to the doctor, after the negative examination results and the doctor's detailed explanation, the psychological burden can be temporarily relieved. But before long, new doubts arose again, so it had to go to the hospital again to ask for examination. There was once a phobia who felt a little unwell, sometimes even had a cold and headache, and thought that he might have been infected with AIDS without any basis. He looked at experts everywhere and checked repeatedly, but the conclusions of various authoritative institutions still couldn't reassure them. He ran all day between major hospitals and inspection institutions, trying every means to find out. Because he heard that there are reports of individuals with HIV antibody false negative. Over the past two years, he repeatedly tested 18 times in different hospitals, each time saying, "I'll check this last time." But not long after the negative results came out, they changed to another hospital for testing. Not only was he physically and mentally exhausted by AIDS phobia, but even his family was disturbed by his hypochondriac symptoms and could not live normally. Every time he went to the hospital, his mother would call the doctor and ask the doctor to tell him that "100%" is not AIDS.

(3) Most people with phobic symptoms of AIDS are fragile and panic when they hear some information about AIDS. In their minds, the infectivity and prevalence of AIDS have been wrongly exaggerated, and they even suspect that everyone around them may be HIV infected, and that every item may carry HIV, and they are worried that people around them will infect themselves with HIV. Therefore, there are some abnormal behaviors, such as the fear of going to "dangerous" occasions or public places, the fear of contacting with "suspicious person" or even anyone, the fear of wound, the fear of blood, the fear of going out all day when it is serious, the fear of seeing people, and even the fear of shortness of breath and panic when hearing the word "AIDS" from others. There is such a phobia, he repeatedly came to the hospital for consultation, describing that he may have various ways of HIV infection. For example, when he gets together with friends, he worries that there may be people living with HIV among his friends. He also feels that he has oral ulcers and is afraid of getting HIV through saliva; Also, the doorknob of the public toilet was touched by a person who seemed to have "AIDS", but his hand seemed to have a wound; Even when the haircut facial acne, may be infected with "AIDS" barber touched, and so on... And these ways will not be infected with HIV.

matters needing attention

Although many patients have received medical examination, negative test results and detailed explanation from doctors, it seems that this can not eliminate their worries about AIDS. In fact, this is exactly the pathology of phobia. Although in the short run, phobic people may alleviate their anxiety through "negative test results", in the long run, this kind of pathological behavior will be aggravated in the repeated test process, and eventually lead to a higher level of fear and anxiety.