Effects of HIV-AIDS on the psychological and social plane in young people from 18 to 21 years.
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is known by the countless effects at the physiological level that it can cause, since the organism defense system weakens causing the carrier of the disease to be vulnerable to any other antigen. However, this pathology not only attacks the physiology of the human body, in the same way there are sequelae at the psychological level, such as: dementia, insulation or aggressive behavior which can be related to the social involvement that entails being a carrier, it is more commonthat in young discrimination and stigma is one of its causes. Therefore, the following work will detail how the mental health of a patient with HIV can deter.
Inés Aristegui (2015) in his work psychological approach to HIV argues that the impact caused by the diagnosis of the virus is variable, since each person welcomes the disease according to other factors adjacent to their social circle. These factors usually sharpen the extent to which mental health is affected, for example, the social circle, lifestyle, life experiences and the coping style can either cause an abrupt emotional overflow or a deep depression that can be controlled.
In most cases, the factor on which your mind is going to find your mind is your social circle and lifestyle. In the first place, it should be considered that the disease is incorrectly perceived by society as a pathology that is extremely contagious and that for minimal contact with the affected the virus will enter its organism. In fact, as established by the Positive Support Association (2013) the first rejection picture is usually made by the group of colleagues or people distant from their family who have been closer during their academic stage either in schools or universities. This behavior is usually associated with the erroneous idea presented above, with the incorrect belief that by minimal contact with a part of a person’s body without the virus it can trigger the infection. Consequently, they move away the infected person as distant as possible, they avoid direct approach or contact, that is, they build a gap or wall due to apparent protection that will lead to the affected person having not only physiological but emotional sequelae but emotional in the long term in the long term.
The identity problem arises from this situation, HIV does not consider gender, social or economic level, but it is common that in those young people who have been infected and are still growing they begin to question themselves from a mediable scaleup to a severe level. The perception of his environment generates that the young man acquires, in general, fear of losing the social faculties that allow himthat
The organization against AIDS Cesid. In men, it is common to accumulate insecurity of relating to other people and even affected patients, this causes the attributes that defined them in prior to the infection to be forgotten and associate their status with an eviction of their social skills. Similarly, in women where sequelaeidea of sexual expertise that affects its emotional entity.
Somatic symptoms, which are presented when infected people carry exaggerated stress due to daily repression, are very common in young people aged 20 or 21, since their experiences lived allow their mind to repress to a lesser extent to a lesser extent. Indeed, these sequelae can have an impact not only at the social level, but at the relational and affective level. It is not uncommon that in general, both genres are repressed, cabizbajos and present a remorse due to the guilt that can be felt. self – esteem is the main affected, because consideration towards themselves as valuable people generating Anhedonia, which is a state of emotional vacuum where the patient is not able to feel any emotion for anything or anyone under any circumstances under any circumstances under any circumstances under any circumstances under any circumstances under any circumstances under any circumstances under any circumstances under any circumstances under any circumstances.
It should be noted that in the same way at the relational level this group of young people presents consequences regarding the inhibition of their mood of being socially active presenting humor changes, moving to excessive anger that leads to wanting to move away from their closest beings such asyour family or third parties so that these are not infected.
In extreme cases, suicide is the consequence of that fear of not being accepted, María Rodríguez (2016) establish that in 5% of the cases analyzed by the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the area of psychiatry, so many men and women decide to endWith his life due to posttraumatic stress that causes comments and looks for prejudiced purposes. The characteristic that Rodríguez points out that in young 18 -year -old infection, since they are constantly indicated under the promiscuity bias.
However, not all cases conclude, on a scale less than suicide, dementia in young patients was presented in the investigation of María Rodríguez (2015) about the incidence of quality of life and its outcome in human delirium,It establishes that as treatable effects are paranoid dementia paintings, since at a stage after isolation, panic attacks are visible. These symptoms occur without age distinction, since ironically rejection causes panic to interact with all kinds of people even with those who have not caused any damage.
Panic attacks as explained by Clinic Psychologist María Piedrahita (2017) is due to the need of patients to return their quality of life towards the regular aspect they carried before they were diagnosed. The World Health Organization defines the quality of life as full when there is the complete state of well -being both physical, psychic and social, therefore, the affected patient will tend to take aggressive attitudes, in some cases when his remote defense with sudden blowsWhen your personal space is invaded, in others it is more passive with the simple fact of avoiding places full of light, places inhabited by many people or places where there is a lot of noise.
Panic further increases paranoia in this group of patients, since the insufficiency of regular activities that were performed, because some HIV symptoms occur at the body level depriving some functional activities such as sports or simple exits with friends, mainly by thepain that disease can cause. Indeed, the constant departure, sometimes voluntary, of his regular life and of people causes that feeling of being persecuted, lost, pointed, criticized by others, leaving sequelae in health
Given all this problem, according to María Rodríguez (2015) there is a large percentage of patient, approximately 55% of patients who manage to fight this type of disorders, the solutions that clinical psychology offer range from group therapy, with fences thatThey commit themselves to insert the patient to a social group as regularly their life and personal acceptance sessions that are more intimate where the affected strengthens their identity.
This means that in not all patients everything is lost, the style of coping with the disease attending group therapy, stress management, muscle relaxation and counseling sessions regularly will have a better quality of life. Those adolescents who face pressure, anxiety and panic with strategies for solving affective internal problems, under the increase in self – esteem and control of their behavior manage mentally unharmed.
In conclusion, in young people the effects at the psychological level may vary depending on their status, circle or social group, quality of life and personal acceptance level. That is, when they face the disease with professional help or simply with self-love, even if it is an arduous task, they manage to have a healthy mind. But, in cases where prejudice, pressure, and social stigma are present daily, the effects can be from mild to catastrophic, starting with deep depressions, emotional gaps and isolation and even cases of suicide. Everything is connected under the idea that HIV should not be synonymous with affective imprisonment, but a new reason to demonstrate the strength of human beings.
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