AIDS phobia symptoms?

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There is a man in a high-risk behavior, online a check, that this behavior can be infected with HIV. He suffered from insomnia, fatigue, intermittent diarrhea and weight loss of 15 kg in two years; His immunity also declined. He was prone to cold and often had low fever. He compared the AIDS related knowledge, more and more feel these symptoms like AIDS, so repeatedly write to the doctor, call or to the hospital consultation: "if not infected with HIV, how can there be so many symptoms?" After repeatedly testing HIV antibody negative, HIV infection can be completely excluded, but due to the symptoms caused by long-term fear and anxiety, he still firmly believes that he is AIDS. This makes him often upset, fidgety, sometimes suddenly produce inexplicable nervous fear, and feel dizzy, flustered, breathing difficulties, sweating, shivering, restless, feel disaster, he is about to end. AIDS phobia symptoms? Let's talk about it.

AIDS phobia symptoms?

(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.

(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.

(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.