- Our bodies and minds are intimately connected. Living with HIV can be stressful and can challenge our emotional well-being. Similarly, stress and anxiety can ...
- When we are emotionally healthy, we are better able to enjoy our life and the people in it.
- This resource is written for people living with HIV, to provide practical information that will help you find and maintain emotional health. It may also be ...
- What do you do to nourish your body and, more importantly, your spirit? Probably a whole range of things: maybe you go for walks, talk with trusted friends, ...
- Emotional health can be difficult to define because the balance that constitutes emotional health is unique to each individual and varies from one culture to ...
- Like physical fitness, it can take time, practice and an ongoing commitment to achieve and maintain emotional health. Here are some simple pointers that might ...
- Living with HIV can be emotionally challenging. You may be dealing with stress and anxiety after being diagnosed with HIV or as a result of disclosing your HIV ...
- Many of the challenges to our emotional health are rooted in low self-esteem. Even prior to an HIV diagnosis, many people have struggled with low self-esteem as ...
- Stress is very common among people living with HIV. We worry about our health, about telling others about our HIV status, about being rejected in relationships or discriminated against at work.
- Some people find it so difficult to deal with stress that they become extremely anxious. They may have panic attacks, develop phobias (intense, specific fears), ...
- The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health estimates that 1 in 5 people who has problems with their emotional health also has a problem with substances, such as ...