AIDS: The mental dimensions.

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Every disease displays its own characteristic symptoms. Every disease impacts

the body, mind, and emotions. The naming of AIDS and the fear phobia built

around it has a severe effect on the victim. This applies to all diseases where

the name itself evokes fear.

 

As per The Mother of Puducherry, the moment you are afraid you open yourself to

disease. We also should remember the feat of Florence Nightangle and her army of

Nurses who protected theselves by their sympathy and love for their patients.

 

In this time of economic slowdown the people are already depressed and fearful.

Glamourising disease and spreading fear through the media is not the way to deal

with any epidemic, particularly in troubled times.

 

While energy healers are looked down at, in AIDS there is the symptom of loss of

energy from cells. (I have lost my link to this. Can anyone provide please?)

 

http://www.indiatogether.org/2009/aug/hlt-hivmind.htm

 

Excerpt: The New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry (Oxford University Press, ed.

2000) notes: " Patients infected with HIV are at an increased risk for a variety

of mental disorders " . These stem both from the direct infections of the central

nervous system by the virus or from infections precipitated by the virus. In

addition, the knowledge of a positive diagnosis will leave patients with

intrusive, brooding thoughts, panic attacks, social isolation, verbal

expressions of rage or feelings of desperation, altered behavior, depression and

even suicidal tendencies.