Hi my name is adrian and I have been suffering from hiv anxiety for 3 months my story is that 3 months ago my long lost cousin came around and I found out that he was hiv positive well I did not know he had had it and I was drinking off him and eating off him and now i find myself dwelling and freaking out over this everyday im tourted it sucks big time i tell my wife and shes sick of hearing about it everyone keeps telling me that there is not a chance ive contracted anything from my cousin but i just dont believe them my mind is out of controle i make these fake symtoms happen to myself like ive been getting tiny bruises on my thigh area like ill get one bruise on week then another the next my mouth feels dry alot and my stomach hurts i have not gotten sick at all but i make myself feel like im sick not only me but my wife has gotten sore throat headaches she gets bruises sometimes she tells me she get sore all over the place just anything and everything that she says bothers her i automaticaly thinks its hiv i feel like im going nuts over this well just wondering if someone out there can relate to my problems thanks
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eating and drinking off someone with hiv
- Thread starter Firenymph
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Some of these responses haven't been very nice, because most people do not know how to be kind to someone undergoing severe anxiety. Most people don't know how to help and can't understand that when you are dealing with severe anxiety, you can't help yourself.
I think what you really need to do is figure out how to help yourself heal from the anxiety and fear. Perhaps make an appointment with a therapist who specializes in anxiety. (If you can find one who offers biofeedback, go to that one!) Also buy some self-help books about how to cope with worry and anxiety. Figure out your "style," what actions you think will help you the most (perhaps a combination of therapy and anxiety books and workbooks.) Look to the anxiety board here for help, as well.
There are many tools you can utilize, such as breathing exercises, meditation, learning to recognize your anxious thoughts and change them. Learning your triggers (such as reading about it one the Internet) and forcing yourself to avoid those triggers. Working with these things will take time, but if you are serious about healing your anxiety, you will eventually be able to.
The next thing you need to do is go to your doctor (tell them you need to be seen for serious anxiety), and explain to them your fear and that you would like an HIV test and some anti-anxiety medication to help you through the time period while you're waiting for the results. I'm sure they will probably be open to prescribing something for that week. Take someone with you, get your blood drawn, and then go out to a restaurant and eat and drink and try to forget your worries!
Think of it this way: when you get your negative results back, you will have your life back. Stop telling yourself they won't be negative. If people caught HIV from sharing drinks and forks and food, it would be spreading as fast as the flu in winter-time and half the population of the world would have it.
If you continue to have so much fear that you can't even go to your doctor for a test and anxiety medication, you should just deal with the anxiety first and foremost with a counselor (or your doctor) first, okay?
peacefull.
I think what you really need to do is figure out how to help yourself heal from the anxiety and fear. Perhaps make an appointment with a therapist who specializes in anxiety. (If you can find one who offers biofeedback, go to that one!) Also buy some self-help books about how to cope with worry and anxiety. Figure out your "style," what actions you think will help you the most (perhaps a combination of therapy and anxiety books and workbooks.) Look to the anxiety board here for help, as well.
There are many tools you can utilize, such as breathing exercises, meditation, learning to recognize your anxious thoughts and change them. Learning your triggers (such as reading about it one the Internet) and forcing yourself to avoid those triggers. Working with these things will take time, but if you are serious about healing your anxiety, you will eventually be able to.
The next thing you need to do is go to your doctor (tell them you need to be seen for serious anxiety), and explain to them your fear and that you would like an HIV test and some anti-anxiety medication to help you through the time period while you're waiting for the results. I'm sure they will probably be open to prescribing something for that week. Take someone with you, get your blood drawn, and then go out to a restaurant and eat and drink and try to forget your worries!
Think of it this way: when you get your negative results back, you will have your life back. Stop telling yourself they won't be negative. If people caught HIV from sharing drinks and forks and food, it would be spreading as fast as the flu in winter-time and half the population of the world would have it.
If you continue to have so much fear that you can't even go to your doctor for a test and anxiety medication, you should just deal with the anxiety first and foremost with a counselor (or your doctor) first, okay?
peacefull.
mookie pookie
New member
If you're that worried get an HIV test - but 1 in a million you could have caught it off him. I've had bad health problems for 8 years - loads of people on this site have serious real problems to worry about - start worrying about them maybe more than yourself ?
Alejandro L
New member
im to scared to get tested ive tried to work up the courage and cant i would possibly go insane to here i was positive
On another note, why are you thinking that your cousin hates you so much he tried to give you HIV? Because that's what all this means. You must think he deliberately let you eat after him so you would get it. Otherwise, the only answer is that you can't contract the disease that way and you wouldn't be so worried. Think about it.
Adrian there is NO way ... Let me put it like this i an positive and 3 kids negative and a negative partner i prepare theire food even share glasses and utensils with my kids my 2 year old kisses me on the mouth u know baby kisses those wet ones u can relax! But get tested if u are not sure