The Nature of HIV
The Nature of HIV. The contagious nature of HIV places it in a different class than other chronic illnesses. Examples include high blood pressure, cancer, and diabetes. The contagious nature of HIV has a more debilitating psychosocial impact. It also has a greater psychological impact on the ill person’s mental and emotional state than non-contagious diseases. It often leads to self-imposed isolation. This results in a feeling of being totally inadequate.
HIV medications can help the body of the infected person. Yet, the person’s feelings of self-worth, self-esteem, and self-confidence suffer from a staggering blow. These must be attended to just as directly as the treatment of their physical body.
Healing the mind of the HIV-infected person significantly aids in healing their body. A healthy mental state will produce far more antibodies to combat intrusions. This is more effective than a mental state that is depressed and dispirited about the condition of its physical health.
The most dangerous mindset for a person infected with the HIV virus is denial. Denial is so dangerous because it refuses to accept the existence of the disease. This hinders the infected person from taking the necessary actions to treat the virus. It also places other people in grave jeopardy.
Denial also has the side effect of confusing the brain. It sends wrong or mixed signals to the protection mechanics of the body. This process weakens the system’s responsiveness to both positive and negative external and internal stimuli.
A person can live a long reasonably healthy life with HIV. Nevertheless, that is not good enough if they are in a despondent mental and emotional state. This often happens because they are constantly aware that a deadly plague is actively resident within them.
The powerful human nature of sexuality becomes a burden and a curse for those infected with any sexually transmitted disease. Being infected with the HIV and AIDS virus also brings a good deal of shame and embarrassment.
There is nothing that hinders a person infected with the HIV and Aids virus from living a productive life. They can have a rewarding life. They can succeed if they do not wallow in the mindset of a defeatist. Being HIV positive may seem like it’s the end of your world. Yet, it is not. It is merely one of life’s many obstacles and challenges. These must be faced with a determination to overcome them.
Self-pity and denial are psychological contraband. They must be removed from the mind. Replace them with goods and services that are reinforcing and empowering personally and society.
The nature of HIV is silent and deadly. It feeds upon the cells of the body like and leech.
HIV is: “Definition By Mayo Clinic Staff “
“Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic, potentially life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). By damaging your immune system, HIV interferes with your body’s ability to fight the organisms that cause disease.
HIV is a sexually transmitted infection. It can also be spread by contact with infected blood or from mother to child during pregnancy, childbirth or breast-feeding. Without medication, it may take years before HIV weakens your immune system to the point that you have AIDS.
There’s no cure for HIV/AIDS, but there are medications that can dramatically slow the progression of the disease. These drugs have reduced AIDS deaths in many developed nations. But HIV continues to decimate populations in Africa, Haiti and parts of Asia.”
The symptoms of HIV and AIDS vary, depending on the phase of infection.
Primary infection (Acute HIV):
The majority of people infected by HIV develop a flu-like illness. This occurs within a month or two after the virus enters the body. This illness, known as primary or acute HIV infection, may last for a few weeks. Possible signs and symptoms include:
- Fever
- Headache
- Muscle aches and joint pain
- Rash
- Sore throat
- Swollen lymph glands, mainly on the neck
The symptoms of primary HIV infection may be mild enough to go unnoticed. Still, the amount of virus in the bloodstream (viral load) is particularly high at this time. As a result, HIV infection spreads more efficiently during primary infection than during the next stage of infection.
Clinical latent infection (Chronic HIV):
In some people, persistent swelling of lymph nodes occurs during clinical latent HIV. Otherwise, there are no specific signs and symptoms. HIV remains in the body, though, and in infected white blood cells.
Clinical latent infection generally lasts around 10 years if you’re not receiving antiretroviral therapy. This phase can last for decades in people taking antiretroviral medications. But some people progress to more severe disease much sooner.
Early symptomatic HIV infection:
As the virus continues to multiply and destroy immune cells, you may develop mild infections or chronic signs and symptoms like:
- Fever
- Fatigue
- Swollen lymph nodes — often one of the first signs of HIV infection
- Diarrhea
- Weight loss
- Oral yeast infection (thrush)
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
Progression to AIDS:
If you get no treatment for your HIV infection, the disease typically progresses to AIDS in about 10 years. By the time AIDS develops, your immune system has been severely damaged. This damage makes you susceptible to opportunistic infections. These are diseases that wouldn’t usually trouble a person with a healthy immune system.
The signs and symptoms of some of these infections may include:
- Soaking night sweats
- Recurring fever
- Chronic diarrhea
- Persistent white spots or unusual lesions on your tongue or in your mouth
- Persistent, unexplained fatigue
- Weight loss
- Skin rashes or bumps
When to see a doctor:
If you think you may have been infected with HIV, consult a healthcare provider immediately. If you are at risk of contracting the virus, seek medical advice as soon as possible.
For more on this go to: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hiv-aids/basics/definition/con-20013732
Everyone say that there is presently no cure for the HIV and Aids virus and widely promote medicating the virus. This is good advice for pharmaceutical companies. Still, it falls short for those of us who are HIV positive.
The cure for the HIV and Aids virus lies with those of us who are infected. We must form our own independent research and development groups. These groups should be solely interested in finding and releasing the cure for HIV and Aids. They should not focus on making money by only developing medications for it.
How HIV and Aids reared their heads, whether by monkeys or by man, is a lukewarm topic. The focus should be on self-reliance, corporate action, and creative initiative. We who are HIV and Aids positive must undertake these as a unified body. We need to cure ourselves of this plague and not depend on others.
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We must not allow HIV and Aids to be relegated to being just one of many treatable illnesses. Doing so would be like abandoning the ship before it has hit the iceberg. We are the pioneers of our own health and destiny. We will forge ahead. We will continue until we are safely at anchor within the docks of the new city.
Our enemy gropes in the darkness. It attacks our immune system using our life-giving blood’s corridors to assail us. There should be a way to induce our quiet enemy to feed upon itself and in so doing annihilate itself.
The cure for HIV and Aids relies on the creative energies of women and men. It can be developed, if it has not already been. This cure can be dispersed among HIV and Aids infected individuals free of charge. There is no such thing as being no such thing as far as human imagination is concerned. The ability to achieve is a gift that is embedded within all of us. Some have more of this gift, while others have less. We all have this gift if we are willing to cultivate and exploit it.
Our hands are not tied to the whims and the goodwill of others. So, we muster our collective forces and pool our resources. We get busy with the job at hand. We take our lives back and dislodge our silent enemy from the tables of nations.
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