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{ 2006 07 31 }

‘Graying’ of HIV takes mental toll, too

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)

Posted by Steve Jenkins on Monday, July 31, 2006. Filed under Health. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.
  • http://blog.myspace.com/joelhensley joseph hensley

    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.

  • http://blog.myspace.com/joelhensley joseph hensley

    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.

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