As the number of HIV-positive Americans over 50 grows, a study shows
that this group is likely to have high rates of depression, and many of
them have numerous age-related medical conditions that are complicated
by their already compromised health.
Read (USA Today)
I am 46 and was diagnosed in 1984. I was given a death sentence that left me 2 years behind the possibility of dieing. Even today my thinking remains that I can only look forward to two years. How long do the drugs really keep you alive and much of it is my own genetic circumstance. I am of Europian decent and I hear thats a plus or commonality amoung long term survival. My depression is from lost and wasted time in not really knowing when. I should have, could have, and would have done so much more if I had known I’d live this long. Iv’e been an disablity twice and currently I am feeling bored again and may just go back to work. Then the stress of living for tomorrow kicks in and I brake down. Truly I have learned to take each day as it comes and thats how I beat depression.
I am also more spirtual and understand the privledge of this longer than expected life and can thank God because I am a better person as a direct result of being HIV/AIDS…hard to understand to most. I lived in a very vain world as a dancer/musician…first to go was the vanity, then the materialism, desire and now the ego. I am one with the universe and enjoying every moment of it.
I am 46 and was diagnosed in 1984. I was given a death sentence that left me 2 years behind the possibility of dieing. Even today my thinking remains that I can only look forward to two years. How long do the drugs really keep you alive and much of it is my own genetic circumstance. I am of Europian decent and I hear thats a plus or commonality amoung long term survival. My depression is from lost and wasted time in not really knowing when. I should have, could have, and would have done so much more if I had known I’d live this long. Iv’e been an disablity twice and currently I am feeling bored again and may just go back to work. Then the stress of living for tomorrow kicks in and I brake down. Truly I have learned to take each day as it comes and thats how I beat depression.
I am also more spirtual and understand the privledge of this longer than expected life and can thank God because I am a better person as a direct result of being HIV/AIDS…hard to understand to most. I lived in a very vain world as a dancer/musician…first to go was the vanity, then the materialism, desire and now the ego. I am one with the universe and enjoying every moment of it.