Anxiety And Fear Of Hiv

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anxiety disorder caused by hiv fear?

I was wondering if you knew how common it is to doubt the accuracy of the hiv tests. After a low risk exposure I became convinced that I had hiv. I have tested negative after a year and also tested negative on a dna pcr test. For some reason I...

Response from Michael Shernoff, M.S.W.

Psychotherapist and Author

Unfortunately fears of having contracted HIV from a low risk sexual experience is one way that many people manifest guilt about a sexual experience that they do not feel good about. Part of how this manifests itself is by not believing the negative... Read more »

Student Riddled with HIV Anxiety: Should I go for a HIV Test? (VISIONS AND FEARS OF BEING SEXUALLY ASSAULTED WHILE SLEEPING, 2010)

Respected Dr BobYou are God's gift to us who are riddled with HIV anxiety, and wish to have a... Read more »

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D. »

Anxiety and Fear About The Future

Dear Dr. Horwath:I am a 42-year-old male diagnosed with HIV in February 2003.At the present time I... Read more »

Response from Ewald Horwath, M.D. »

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Articles

Health Experts "Fear" Impending HIV Epidemic in Southern Sudan After Two-Decade Civil War

Health experts "fear" that southern Sudan, emerging from more than two decades of civil war, could experience a major HIV epidemic because of low levels of HIV/AIDS awareness among the population, an influx of returning refugees from neighboring... Read more »

IRIN Examines How Mining Industry in Mozambique Increasing Fears of HIV

IRIN examines how "[e]very mining boom brings the fear of a rising HIV infection rate, particularly in a country like Mozambique, where the estimated prevalence is already 11.3 percent." The news service looks at how the promise of a large coal... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Pakistanis Deported for Testing HIV-Positive Raise Fears at Home

Pakistan health workers fear a sharp rise in HIV cases as Pakistanis deported from abroad for testing positive for HIV/AIDS return home, according to reports. Pathologists at the research center in Khyber Medical College in Peshawar raised the alarm... Read more »

Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange

Fear-Based Campaigns: The Way Forward or Backward?

Fear-based HIV campaigns were popular in the early years of the HIV epidemic -- they typically used scary imagery, such as tombstones, to alert the population to the dangers of HIV/AIDS. Fear-based HIV campaigns have resurfaced with the "It's Never... Read more »

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FEAR ANXIETY PANIC

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

To the people like me who are terriffied that we may have HIV I just want to say it can't get anyworse than this feeling we have now even if we do test POZ I think his Terror we have now is as worse as it will get.
Please reply if you feel the same... Read more »

Fear, regret, anxiety, and self loathing.

Posted by BurningChrome, 3 Replies

Hello, I cant think of a good way to start this post, so I will be blunt. I am very fearful that I have been infected with HIV. If this is the wrong forum let me know and I will repost this in the "stricken with terror" category, which I cannot seem... Read more »

anyone ever fear or have anxiety over meds

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

I would like some feed back. I've been poz for 17 years comming this jan 21st. just diagnosedwith aids last december also cmv an ks . i started on meds and got quitea bit better will be starting new medsnext month hte others caused nuropothy... Read more »

Anxiety and fear/Mental Health

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Does anyone know of any other disease that my cause so much anxiety and so much fear in people. They tell us to be educated but as I am reading the articles and information, the more fear and anxiety I get. But it becomes like an addiction, I don't... Read more »

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