Mental Suicide Memo

HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus and can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) if not treated (About HIV/AIDS, n.d). Unlike some other viruses, the human body cannot fully rid itself of HIV completely, even with treatment. Simply put, once you contract HIV, you have it for life. This disease attacks the body’s immune system, specifically the CD4 cells (T cells), which help the immune system stave off infections. When left to its own devices, HIV reduces the number of CD4 cells (T cells) in the body, making the person more likely to

Anxiety is something that everyone experiences to some degree. Unfortunately, for some anxiety completely controls their lives; this is referred to as generalized anxiety disorder. This severe anxiety can cause panic attacks which can make one think they are having a heart attack. It is amazing that our brains have the ability to make our bodies experience all the symptoms of a heart attack. This extreme anxiety is exceedingly dangerous and treatment is vital. Learning what triggers one’s anxiety is the first step. Sometimes just being able to talk to someone about one’s problems, be it a friend, family member or a therapist will help one through these rough times. Therapists have different cognitive-behavioral therapy methods to help overcome

To take action her, the plan should be to find the target audience, where the risk of HIV is most common and have a guest speaker that looks like the target audience and who is infected with HIV to tell about his/her story.

Paul’s mission to become part of the upper-class society by assimilating his ethnicity, class, and culture did not end up how Paul had envisioned when he first started his journey because of Paul inability to form his own point of view. Even though, Paul has many great abilities such as confidence, intelligence knowledge and curiosity, and a friendly outgoing personality. Unfortunately, all of Paul’s qualities displayed in the film as not natural as Paul had act these abilities to fool the Kittredge’s. Paul’s plan is misguided from the beginning, he at sometimes seems like he has planned a few steps ahead like when he tells his stories about his life being the son of Sidney Portia and at other times Paul has no plans for his

First off, you need to be comfortable with yourself about your chronic illness. Just because

That can make them unable to perform their activities of daily living so they need more help from friends and family. For the Duration of disease it directly affects on family’s economic status which has large impact on a patient's psychological functioning (Department of Australian health, 2017). Sometimes sudden health incident for example AMI, stroke, cancer, or other serious diagnosis can change Patient’s life disappointingly. The common feelings such as shock, anger, grief or loss can be seen on patient face. These feelings usually forgotten with time, however, some patients are more prone to develop depression and anxiety. Patient diagnosis with chronic disease may feel he/she is a burden on family and others, which might effect on social relationships (Department of Australian health,

Getting tested for HIV/AIDs is important for one’s health, relationships, and overall future. HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency virus; the virus that causes the HIV infection.HIV is spread through the blood, semen, genital fluids, or a HIV infected woman’s breast milk. However, the most common ways to contract HIV is from having unprotected sex, sharing needles and syringes, or same sex intercourse. The growth of new HIV infections continues to rise. According to the Centers of Disease Control (CDC), currently in the United States 1.2 million people are infected with HIV. Among that large group of people, twenty percent of the people were unaware of their status. Consequently, the twenty

Although medical practitioners are apprehensive on the idea of informing their patients that they’re HIV positive, it is a crucial step in the process of reducing transmission and should be mandatory in order to ensure that both the patient and the practitioner are taking the proper security checks in order to establish a safe environment.

Paul was confused. This guy, a complete stranger, actually seemed to care about him. Didn’t the guy know how evil he was? Ah, this was all so messed up. “I don’t know what to say.”

Paul lacks social relationships and tend to isolate himself. “[t]he child will play by himself, even with “with” children” (Meyer, Root, and

When HIV progresses to its last stage it is called AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). People with AIDS have a very low number of CD4+ cells and get infections or cancers that do not commonly occur in non-infected people. These infections and cancers can be deadly because the immune system is compromised. A common misconception that people have is that AIDS and HIV is the same thing. Having HIV doesn 't mean you have AIDS. Even if a patient is never treated for HIV, it still takes a long time for HIV to turn into AIDS sometimes it can take up to 10 to 12 years for HIV to turn into AIDS. When a patient is diagnosed with HIV there are medicines to slow the HIV virus to turning into AIDS, medicines can slow or stop the disease from damaging the immune system. If AIDS does develop there is still hope, medicines can help the immune system become healthy again. With

This report includes a brief introduction on the HIV virus and then resources that are available to the individuals that have been affected by HIV. It also includes measures that can enhance the quality of life of those affected and the effects this can have on the affected individual’s beloved ones.

Although, for individuals who have contracted HIV, there are certain steps a person can take to live a healthy lifestyle. Most people assume that after a person has contracted HIV, then it is over and there is nothing that person can do. It is true that the HIV virus does not have a cure, but it does not mean that people have to let the virus consume them by thinking there is nothing they can do. If the individual found out early the HIV virus was in their body, they can go to a HIV medical care and receive “antiretroviral” therapy (HIV/AIDS, 2014). This means the person would receive several antiretroviral medicines that would slow down the rate of the HIV cells(HIV/AIDS, 2014). This means this will slow down how fast the HIV cells take and replace the immune cells in

This research was undertaken to understand the importance of educating people on an emerging disease that is affecting millions of people across the world. This disease is the human immunodeficiency virus. Information was gathered from various resources along with statistical data to formulate an opinion on the past, present, and future research of this disease. I identified similar patterns as it pertains to HIV testing, prevention, and treatment. I was able to conclude from this research that there are thousands of people living with HIV and oblivious of it.

Knowing how dangerous an epidemic like this is very important especially for someone who is thinking of having intercourse with their partner. It can be in many people who seem as if they are not sick. HIV can be spread through unprotected sex (oral, vaginal or anal), blood transfusion infected by this virus, or even a baby born