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Aids in the Family

s, neighbors, and co-workers. They also think of taking drastic measures, which would be committing suicide, or just thinking about dying. Most victims try to be strong for their families. Lisa Pratt whos husband is a victim of AIDS states, I didnt want to cry in front of my family. I cried when I was alone in the car, and in the shower (Bartlett, p. 84). When people feel this alone and helpless is it considered to be mild depression. These feelings can also lead into deep depression, which would include thoughts of dying and suicide. When a person starts to feel this hopeless and non-existent they need to seek professional help. They can not function daily with the feeling of hopelessness. With these feelings the victims and their family will soon become fatigued from lack of sleep.Family members and the victims next go through the stage of fatigue. When you think of a person being fatigued you normally think of the physical aspect, but the family members and victims go through physiological fatigue also. The victims go through the physical fatigue first. Once they are depressed they lose hope they also lose their ability to want to get up in the morning. They are always dead tired, because they have no energy. The family members on the other hand are going through the physiological fatigue. They see their loved one wasting away day after day, and it mentally drains them. The virus described by Lisa Pratt, whos husband has AIDS, is a B.A Mayseries of little deaths (Bartlett, p. 89). The people with this virus have to let the little things they used to love doing in life like mowing the grass, or hiking in the mountains go because they do not have the energy to do them anymore. When this starts happening to victims it frustrates them. What the family member needs to remind them is that they are doing the best job they can possibly do, and what they can not do today, maybe they will have the energy for it tomorrow. For...

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