Cheating Causes Mystery STIs

Have you heard about the new strain of HIV in China? There’s a panic sweeping the nation that it’s going undiagnosed and people are dying.

But guess what folks; it doesn’t exist.

No matter how sick you are or how many times you go to the doctors, they are not going to find anything because there’s nothing to find.

A major health anxiety is sweeping China, and with its history of the SARS virus and secretive governments, many people are falling prey to this rumour.

This started as far back as August 2009 and the experts immediately debunked it. But it’s still causing problems.

I have spoken with clients in my work as a health professional who are calling to alert us to this new illness. They say we need to alert the authorities and ask what we are doing to protect the public. They want to find out how they might get tested.

Although I can’t say this to them, the best protection is to stay in a monogamous relationship and be faithful to their partner.

They [doctors] suspect extreme guilt or anxiety about an act the men are ashamed of – sex with a prostitute – is affecting their immune systems, making them feel ill.

Anxiety can have severe physical consequences. People can lose sleep, lose appetite, have fevers, headaches, stomach aches, nausea, diarrhea – the list goes on. And the problem with the Internet is that many people are self-diagnosing. But without a doctor’s examination they won’t be able to see the difference between a real illness and an imagined one.

In addition to hurting themselves through intense anxiety and paranoia, these people are wasting valuable hospital resources.

And this could be said of all STIs and other viral infections, not just HIV. If you have a mystery illness which you swear is an STI, but doctors are not diagnosing it, that doesn’t mean they are wrong.

Much more likely is the fact that you have done something you weren’t supposed to do and are riddled with guilt about infecting your partner or children.

So stop wasting the doctors’ time and start getting some help from counselling. This mystery STI will be cleared with a good dose of the old talking therapy.

Sadly, this is something many of the people won’t realize until it’s too late. They have real symptoms and it can have a devastating effect on their life. They might be unable to work, shun all social contact, and hurt their relationship with their partner or children.

So what’s the solution? Sadly there isn’t one. People are always going to cheat on their partners and health anxieties will always cause problems for certain people. The best we can do is encourage openness and try and steer people away from anxiety and toward some kind of mental health therapy.

Because, whether they like it or not, admitting they cheated and dealing with the consequences are the only ways their problems will be solved.