No high risk of AIDS symptoms?

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AIDS phobia (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) referred to as acrophobia, is a strong fear of AIDS, accompanied by anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive, hypochondriac and other psychological symptoms and behavioral disorders. Patients suspected that they were infected with HIV, or very afraid of HIV infection and obsessive-compulsive symptoms such as cleanliness. In 2011, the group self-reported negative AIDS incident in Guangdong and other places was declared to be wormwood phobia after investigation and testing by the Ministry of health, and no unknown virus was found.

No high risk of AIDS symptoms?

There are some AIDS phobic people who repeatedly think about the symptoms of AIDS or some behaviors that have occurred - forced thinking, repeatedly check the suspicious physical signs (such as lymphadenectasis) - forced action, and even ponder over some details that ordinary people do not care about, thinking that they may be infected with AIDS.

AIDS patients with hypochondriac symptoms often have 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.

Most of the people who have phobic symptoms of AIDS are fragile. They feel 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.

matters needing attention

After the occurrence of high-risk behaviors, people with AIDS phobia consciously feel sorry for their parents or their wives and children, and at the same time worry about HIV infection. Under this double pressure, he is very prone to some physical symptoms such as fatigue, muscle soreness and diarrhea. This further increased his fear of HIV infection and made him fall into deep remorse, even thinking of suicide. There is an AIDS phobia in an extramarital sex, very afraid of their own HIV infection. He gradually lost interest in the outside world, didn't want to talk, didn't want to move, couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, often regretted and blamed himself, pessimistic and hopeless about the future, lost confidence, and finally had the idea of suicide. In his suicide note to his wife, he said: "dear wife, I am infected with AIDS. I have carried you to the hospital many times, although the doctor said I was not infected with AIDS, but I don't believe it at all. I think they must be comforting me, because I have many symptoms of AIDS. I'm sorry for you. I betrayed you. I did something I shouldn't do. It's natural for me to have AIDS!