subject: Obtaining Personal HIV Support [print this page] When you find yourself recently diagnosed with HIV you discover your life takes on an unreal angle. Nothing feels the same everything seems to have sifted. It is highly crucial at this stage and at any stage when your condition takes a new turn to ask your medical team for help. Your medical team will help you and ensure that you get the very best care with all the necessary drugs and they may also offer counselling. However in order to really gain a optimistic insight and help you with your fears and understanding you really need to obtain some true HIV support from those who completely understand what it is you find yourself experiencing.
Should you be offered counselling then it will do you no harm to accept it. For here you can discuss without prejudice your inner thoughts, feelings and emotions. By actually saying things aloud and being given the opportunity to explore the impact that your HIV has had and is having upon your life will help you begin to come to terms with it. Counselling affords you the inner space to really understand your own feelings by giving you the quiet breathing space you need. However for some people this type of HIV support is not enough. For the counsellor will never tell you things they are just there to listen and guide the conversation, bringing it back on track when you stray. Consequently, especially if newly diagnosed people often need a more tangible type of HIV support in which solutions and alternative means of coping are passed on.
The majority of people with conditions, disfigurements or disabilities always feel as if they are not completely understood. Why is this? No two people who share the same problem, condition, disability etc. will have share the same situations. You see outside factors especially those from our early years mould us into the adults we become, making us the person we are today. This shapes us to see, feel and experience the world as we do. Also by looking at our present and how it impacts upon us. For example our jobs, our finances, our relationships etc. which all combine and make us feel happy, sad, stressed, dejected and in turn dictates how we cope with other influences. In fact all these personal and external factors press down and affect our lives and make us react and feel as we do. No one and here I must stress NO ONE can experience our condition in exactly the same way as we do, because they are not us!
Consequently when you understand this, it matters not how many people are on your medical team, nobody will one hundred percent truly comprehend your HIV from your personal perspective. Also by seeing that doctors and nurses do not actually have the condition, they are just doing things learnt from training and experience, this all means you cannot get the true understanding which you crave.
Individuals who share your HIV condition obviously have a better understanding of what you are experiencing. Of course circumstances will not be exactly the same for them as their life structure will be different; however it is possible to get some great advice and support from those who live daily with the same condition.
Helpful HIV support can be obtained in various ways. For those who enjoy meeting people and chatting face to face there are a multitude of HIV support groups all around the United Kingdom. For those less happy talking in person there are numerous internet websites offering just as good HIV support. Similarly the HIV dating sites also offer HIV support. This type of site has large online communities and so make an easy and fun alternative to HIV support especially if newly diagnosed and you require lots of quick answers. The added advantage of using internet HIV dating website to find your HIV support is that it also offers you the opportunity to make friends with the possibility of also finding true love!
There are many people living with HIV, you are not alone or even all that different. It is good for people to mix with likeminded souls and these people will show you that HIV does not have to be the end of everything. So do yourself a favour and go out and mix with people and get the type of HIV support that is right for you.
Obtaining Personal HIV Support
By: Tonya Lill
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