AIDS, as we all know, stands for Acquire Immune Deficiency Syndrome and is a very lethal disease.
But one must not lose hopes when diagnosed positive with AIDS, he/she must not feel depressed or guilty and needs not to take any social or moral pressure as because if AIDS is diagnosed in the early days and treated well, the person carrying the infection can live longer.
Living with the reality
Once diagnosed positive with AIDS the life might appear tough to carry forward but one can’t give up so easily!!
Although it is hard to accept but you must accept the challenge and learn to live with this reality. You should not feel guilty and should not blame yourself as it would add up to his/her stress and pressure. Your stress and tension won’t do any good to you rather it will lower your longevity. Always try to be happy and adapt a positive attitude towards your life. A positive approach may help you to cope up with this disease and will boost your confidence.
Regular check-up and health monitoring
AIDS is known to be lethal because it directly hampers our immune system and renders us vulnerable and prone to various pathogens (disease causing micro-organisms) and diseases caused by them. In short it is not just one disease, it’s a bundle of diseases.
An important thing to know is that the HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) when enters a host’s body may get active the moment it entered or may remain inactive for years. Hence there is no certainty of when this HIV virus becomes active or up till when it remains inactive.
Here comes the role of regular heath check-ups and monitoring. Regular check-ups keep you updated about your latest medical report and about how your immune system is doing. Also these regular check-ups help you switch or change your medicines or the doses according to your current immunity.
You should not refrain from these regular check-ups because if you do, you won’t have the track of the stage of your infection.
Hence this is a must that you get checked-up regularly and be in constant touch with you doctor.
It also helps boost your morale if there is some improvement from the previous test reports. You feel happy if such thing happens.
Avoid being lonely
Being alone at this stage may lead to utter stress and tension which results in deterioration of health.
All sorts of negative thoughts also crops in mind when you are alone hence try not to be alone and avoid loneliness. Go out talk to people as you were earlier. Don’t let the negative thoughts creep in your mind. Try out things which make you feel better and give you happiness.
Try to socialize, participate in activities happening nearby and maintain harmonious relationships with people around you.
Don’t hide, share with one you can
Unfortunately it’s a hard reality that there is no cure for AIDS, once affected and the cost is life!! That’s why it is said that “Prevention is better than cure”.
So once you know that you have been diagnosed with AIDS, you should let your closed ones know, at least to your sex partners. So that they also get themselves checked for any casualty.
Speak out to those people who really care for you so that they get aware of your condition and support you to fight the odds.
Sharing will boost your confidence and will inculcate the feeling of living the life fully.
Always remember you are not the single case of AIDS, there are so many persons having AIDS. Share your experience with them and know their experiences. There are many online as well as social communities of AIDS infected people, reach them and interact with them, this might ease your stress and depression. Interacting with them makes you aware that you are not alone in this fight there are thousands of people who are with you fighting with AIDS everyday every moment.
If you hide your condition from your loved ones, you are not easing there life rather you are creating an unsolvable problem for both you and them!
Ignore what others say
Though life has moved to Moon and Mars, AIDS is still considered to be the most inferior diseases in our society, and a person having AIDS is generally looked down upon. People at that time forget that having sex with multiple partners is not the only reason for AIDS.
Hence the one who is infected with AIDS needs to ignore such behaviors and any comments made to them by the foolish people around him.
Just because you are infected with AIDS does not mean that you have lost your dignity in the society.
In a society there are lots of people of different mentality and believes, you can’t change their nature or stop them to speak, but one thing you can do is that you can ignore them. You should not hear such people who humiliate you or criticize you because of your disease.
