Self-elimination method for AIDS phobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder

AIDS phobia does not necessarily belong to the same category, and patients may have multiple conditions at the same time, so the most important thing is self-elimination treatment. There are many ways to eliminate AIDS phobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder, among which psychotherapy is the most important. However, most patients with AIDS phobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder will not accept psychotherapy. They do not think it is a mental illness, and they also say that such worry is normal.

1. Causes

Most people with AIDS phobia have engaged in highly risky premarital or extramarital sexual behavior, and the objects of their sexual behavior are often prostitutes and women with promiscuous sexual relationships who they met online. On the one hand, these risky sexual behaviors do greatly increase the chances of HIV infection; on the other hand, because such behaviors are not permitted by social moral norms, deep down they are often subjected to moral condemnation and social pressure.

The struggle between reason and desire, morality and instinct often causes them to feel conflicted, ashamed, and guilty, making them more susceptible to AIDS phobia. In this situation, they see or learn some knowledge related to AIDS, but have only a superficial understanding of it. As a result, they exaggerate the infectiousness of AIDS, or take possible symptoms of AIDS as specific symptoms of AIDS, matching them one by one with their own feelings, and thus falling into deep fear.

2. Clinical manifestations

1. Mental depression, silence, fear, anxiety, and inability to relieve oneself

Whenever they talk about their symptoms, they feel like they are dying, and thus experience insomnia, palpitations, cold sweats, dizziness and other symptoms. Some even think that death is just around the corner and the world is coming to an end.

2. Spread of the disease

The patient publicly claimed that he had AIDS, felt extremely guilty, and mobilized his family to undergo STD tests.

3. Being stubborn

Although he was found to be negative for AIDS after examinations at many hospitals, he still sought medical treatment from many places.

4. Basic symptoms

Obsessive-compulsive symptoms, hypochondriacal symptoms, fear of illness, and depressive symptoms.

3. Self-elimination method for AIDS phobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder

1. Trust scientific testing

If the antibody or nucleic acid test is negative after the window period, the possibility of infection can be completely ruled out. Don't worry or suspect unnecessary things.

2. Don’t trust the symptoms

Many friends suspect that they have been infected with AIDS and it is related to their own symptoms. Indeed, a small number of people will experience acute symptoms after being infected with AIDS. The condition for acute symptoms is that they are infected with a large amount of HIV, but such cases are actually very rare, and the acute symptoms of AIDS are almost non-specific and are no different from the diseases they may normally get. From a medical point of view, symptoms cannot be used as a criterion for determining whether an infection is present. Almost everyone with AIDS phobia has symptoms of one kind or another, but the final blood test results show that more than 99% of them are fine, which is enough to prove that the symptoms are not credible.

3. Try to divert your attention

Focus on work or study, pay more attention to your family, and participate in outdoor sports to reduce anxiety and worry. You will find that many of the so-called symptoms will heal before long.