MENTAL ILLNESS AND HIV INFECTION

The National 28 September 2012

There has been a conference on mental illness in Port Moresby. There was an address by Dr Losavati on the chance of HIV positive people developing mental illness if there were rejections and denials in the family.

She said that many of those with HIV suffer from mental illness silently and alone. They suffered mood disorders, anxiety disorders, depression, psychotic disorders, delirium, pain syndromes and suicidal tendencies. 

AIDS Holistics advises that in the modern era, the onset of dementia may be removed with anti-retroviral treatment that kills the HIV in the blood and brings the attack on the gut lining to a halt. Body systems return almost to normal.

But in Papua New Guinea, there may well be 25,000 sufferers  in rural areas not on ARV treatment so the full thrust of AIDS will attack them.

Dr Losavati explained that with those with psychiatric disorders, it is not possible to distinguish between those with disorders and those suffering from the HIV/AIDS syndrome.

AIDS Holistics has long ago focused on the dementia that accompanies late HIV infection.

There are a number of causes which includes stress from a long term drop in health, destruction of the gut lining and blockage of nutrients, water and salts together with damage from entry of the virus to the brain.  Please click:

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The loss of capacity to absorb nutrients, salts, oxygen and water causes infection, starvation, dehydration, slow suffocation and a radically changed water salt balance.

So much depends on the correct water-salt balance in the blood and tissues. These are the pathways of nutrition, oxygen, carbon dioxide, waste and water to/from the cells, including brain cells.

All of these will affect the balance of all body systems including the brain and nervous system.

So the onset of dementia involves a wide range of factors - changed water salt balance, diet, smoking, alcohol, virus entry to the brain and genetics.

People suffering AIDS dementia complex may come to have delusions and hallucinations about people or spirits trying to kill them.

The impact of a sufferer on family can be very terrifying. 

Take the story of Damon Courtenay written by his father. He saw himself being pursued by the CIA disguised as doctors and nurses at the hospital.

He believed that he alone held the cure to HIV infection and the CIA were trying to stop him. Please click:

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