Posts Tagged ‘Mental Health’
Linda: I look at him how he was, and I look at him now, I feel so bad. Because I remember the vibrant Thomas, you know, not the Thomas that can’t hardly get up. He’s all skin and bones, and it hurts me just to see how skinny he is.
Thomas: I’m thinking I’m one way, but I see somebody else in the mirror.
Linda: He’s ahead of the game ’cause he still got life. Think about all the people that’s not here, that had the disease. [...]
Oct 21, 2010 | Categories: Transcripts | Tags: Coping, Denial, Families, IVDU, Late-Stage Illness, Loss, Mental Health, Romance, Serodiscordant, Spirituality, Support
Louis: She took a chance with me. It’s funny, I’m positive, but I didn’t wanna ask a woman that was negative if they would like to go out with me, because of the rejection that I might get. But then I noticed, I was feeling alone. And when I saw her for the first time, I said you know what? I’m gonna take a chance, I’m gonna ask her.
Rosalia: And I said no. I said, no, but then later on …okay, you can continue...
Louis: …but later on I decided, yeah well, I’m not gonna let that NO stop me, and I waited a week, I think, and I asked again, and she said yes. [...]
Oct 26, 2010 | Categories: Transcripts | Tags: Activism, creativity/arts, Education, Family, Mental Health, Romance, Serodiscordant, Support
Many diseases and infections affect a specific part of the body, but HIV lives in the immune system and therefore ultimately impacts the whole body. While health care providers are trained to be experts in highly focused areas within the mental and physical health fields, they need to be sensitive to how the lines between their specialties can blur and work closely with other providers to maximize benefits for patients. Coordinating care is critical, as many medications can become dangerous or ineffective when combined. Side effects for medicines addressing physical ailments can include mental health issues like depression, and medications addressing mental health conditions such as depression may include physical symptoms like nausea or fluctuations in weight. [...]
Oct 26, 2010 | Categories: Articles | Tags: access to care, Ageism, Aging, comorbidities, contraindications, coordinated care, depression, disease progression, Health Disparities, Homophobia, immunosuppression, Isolation, Medication, menopause, Mental Health, opportunistic infections, physical health, Providers, side effects, Spirituality, Substance Use, Support, testing/diagnosis, Treatment, universal precautions
I would like to say that it’s not the end. There was a time when somebody said you had HIV, you felt like you were doomed. But they have come so far in our society with this disease that people are living much longer. I tell you, I couldn’t feel better. I’m 60, and I’ve had it since ’91. [...]
Oct 26, 2010 | Categories: Featured, Transcripts | Tags: Communication, depression, Hope, Mental Health, patient-education/advocacy
